Grilled salmon with a honey and Dijon sauce is very simple to make and it will make you look like a professional chef with your friends. All you need are a couple of ingredients, a little honey and a Dijon style mustard, along with a fresh a hunk of salmon with the skin on the bottom. The rest of the ingredients can be optional! Read on for the recipe...

Here are the main ingredients:

A few tablespoons of a Dijon style mustard

A few tablespoons of Honey

1 tbsp. Finely chopped ginger cut julienne style

dash of ketchup

dash of soy sauce

Juice from one squeezed lemon

Combine all of the above ingredients together and mix well. Squeeze a little excess lemon on the fish and cover with the sauce. Let marinate for about 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, remove the fish from the sauce. Set the sauce to the side. Place the fish on a clean grill on medium to low flame with the skin side down. Then close the lid. Do not fuss with the fish! Just let it stay on the grill for a good 20-30 minutes. Only open the grill occasionally to make sure there are no flare ups.

 

 

It will stick a bit to the grill and if you try to move it before it is ready to come off, it will likely fall apart. No flipping is necessary unless you want to try your hand a grill marks on the fish with high heat.

While the fish is on the grill, place the marinade in a small saucepan on the stove top with low-medium heat. Bring to a slow boil, let it then a bit and then cool and thicken.

Check on the salmon. To see if the salmon is done, poke with a fork or chopstick the meat's thickest point, if there is little resistance all of the way through then the fish is ready.

The right tool for removing fish or seafood from the grill is a very flat style spatula. A super thin metal spatula works best. Gradually work the edge of the fish and slide the spatula under the fish between the skin and grill and separate the fish from the grill.

 

 

Remove the thickened marinade from the stove top and drizzle over the salmon.

When your are done cooking the fish don't forget to clean your grill when it is still hot! Also, see the other goodies on the plate? There is a side of string beans stir-fried with garlic butter and lemon zest. I used a simple recipe along with frozen string beans. The rolls were made from left over pizza dough we had kicking around.  We will have more on these in upcoming articles.

Or you can serve with steamed or grilled vegetables, rice, and light rolls