Grilled bourbon-glazed cedar plank salmon is a delicious, easy recipe to help you add more heart-healthy fish to your diet. This 5-ingredient recipe is perfect for the summer grilling season! (dairy-free, nut-free, gluten-free)
Get ready for a healthy and delicious recipe for grilling season! With this grilled bourbon glazed cedar plank salmon, you're only 5 ingredients away from dinner.
Since being pregnant, I've been paying extra attention to make sure I get enough omega-3 rich seafood in my diet to help with baby's brain growth and development. I'd eat salmon almost every day of the week if I could, but since Mr. Table isn't about salmon (or really any other fish) most of the time, I've been relying heavily on eating out, where I can order fish to my heart's content, to get my 2 servings a week. Luckily, restaurant portions are usually huge, so I get my 2 fish servings by ordering one meal, I can take home half and have it for lunch for the next day!
But I also care about Mr. Table's heart health, and salmon is just so dang easy to make on weeknights, that I wanted to create a salmon recipe he would love. What better way than with fire, bourbon, and wood smoke?
This recipe did the trick. Mr. Table loved this grilled bourbon glazed cedar plank salmon. He ate it up and said he'd happily eat it once a week for dinner (Cue the ordering of cedar planks in bulk). And I loved that 1.) It was super easy to make with only 5 ingredients, and 2.) Since it's grilled, I can usually get him to cook it! #dinnerwin.
To make this recipe even easier, you can make a double or triple batch of the sauce and keep it in a container in the refrigerator so that it's ready to go when you want to whip up a quick dinner. If you pre-make the sauce, this delicious cedar plank salmon takes only 10 or 15 minutes. Grill up some vegetables to go alongside it, and you've got an effortless, healthy meal with minimal cleanup that the whole family will love!
If you made this recipe, please leave a star rating in the comments!
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Grilled bourbon glazed cedar plank salmon is a delicious, easy recipe to help you add more heart healthy fish to your diet. This 5-ingredient recipe is perfect for summer grilling season! (dairy-free, nut-free, gluten-free)
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: main dish
- Method: grilled
- Cuisine: seafood
Ingredients
- 1 cedar plank
- ½ cup bourbon
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tbsp low sodium soy sauce*
- 1 lb salmon filet
- Sea salt
- Freshly cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Soak cedar plank in water for 1-2 hours.
- In a small saucepan, combine bourbon, honey, garlic and soy sauce. Heat over medium-low heat until reduced by half, about 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Heat grill to medium heat, about 450°F.
- Place salmon, skin side down, on the cedar plank. Season with salt and pepper. Brush generously with bourbon sauce.
- Grill salmon 10-15 min, or until it is cooked to your desired doneness, brushing with sauce every 5 minutes or so.
- Remove from grill. Slide a thin spatula between the skin and flesh to easily separate fish from the skin. Serve immediately.
Notes
*Use low sodium tamari or liquid aminos for gluten-free
Keywords: grilled plank salmon, bourbon plank salmon, glazed cedar plank salmon
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This has to be the worst salmon recipe I’ve ever done for a grill. What sauce? It’s wet bland and it never caramelizes around the fish. I’m an avid griller and I would ignore this recipe at all costs. Everyone on this comment thread is giving it five stars because they’re afraid to say anything negative these days. Waste of time.
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Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you, Matthew.
Great recipe!! Can this be cooked in the oven?
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Great recipe!! My family loves it. Can it be cooked in the oven instead of grilled?
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How can I adjust this to be cooked in an oven? I don’t have access to a grill on vacation.
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Hi Tiffany,
I would follow the same instructions, but place the salmon on a piece of parchment or foil on a baking sheet and bake at 400°F for about 10-15 min. Brush the sauce on once about halfway through and then at the end.
Any particular bourbon to use?
Any that you have is fine! Probably not your rare, expensive kind though 🙂
The bourbon sauce was delicious! I mistakenly didn’t reserve extra to drizzle later. I used a cedar plank over direct med-high heat on gas grill. Put the skinless salmon on after I heated and turned plank first. Basted with sauce. Took only about 15 mins - used a thermometer at 10 minutes. Kept a water spray bottle handy so plank didn’t catch fire. Recipe is a keeper! Thank you!
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Hi Janet,
So glad you enjoyed the recipe! Thanks for the spray bottle tip.
Beautiful presentation, but lacking specifics...indirect or direct heat...heat plank till smoking before placing salmon?