This Whiskey Salmon recipe features a Whiskey marinade with orange. It is a flavorful salmon recipe that can easily be adjusted to your number of portions.
This Orange Whiskey Salmon was directly inspired by the Orange Bourbon Salmon recipe I found in the new cookbook America's Favorite Food. This cookbook features top recipes from the my recipes website, which compiles the recipes from seven magazines, including Cooking Light, Real Simple and Southern Living. One cool feature of the book is the Scan-It/Cook-It labels that enable you to access even more related recipes, information and media, on your smartphone (supports both Apple & Android). Like most cookbooks from this publisher the images are large, the recipes are easy to follow and it includes useful bonus tips.
Now, on to how I monkeyed around with the recipe, because as we all know, I can never leave well enough alone... and as usual I didn't have all the needed ingredients on hand. To start, I didn't have any bourbon, but I did have a little bit of Micheal Collins Irish whiskey. I was also out of lemons, so I used Ponzu sauce rather than soy sauce, and decided to skip the green onions and chives. The recipe was adjusted for one serving too, since my daughter wouldn't be having any.
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Whiskey Orange Salmon
Ingredients
- 1 wild salmon fillet approx 6 oz
Whiskey Marinade
- 1 tbs Irish Whiskey
- 1 tbs orange juice
- 1 ½ tbs. Ponzu sauce
- 1 tbs brown sugar
- 1 clove of garlic smashed, but not chopped
Instructions
- Whisk the whiskey, orange juice, Ponzu, and sugar togther. Drop in the smashed garlic.
- Pour into a zip top storage bag, and add the salmon.
- Allow to marinate in refrigerator for a minimum of 1 ½ hours (overnight is fine).
- Preheat the broiler or grill.
- While fish is cooking, microwave the remaining marinate for about 2 minutes. This will reduce it a little, cook off the alcohol and sterilize it so you can baste with it and pour some over finished dish.
Broiler - Place salmon skin side down on broiler safe dish. Baste frequently. Cook to taste, mine only took about 5-6 minutes.
Grill- Place flesh side down on hot grates, to sear (about 4-5 minutes). Flip and baste. Leave the salmon skin side down for remainder of cooking. Baste until fish has reached your preferred doneness.
Nutrition
Jennifer The Quirky Momma says
That looks fabulous! Living in the Pacific NW means that I can easily find fresh salmon, and now I'm hungry for salmon!
Elaina- A Time Out for Mommy says
This sounds delicious and looks amazing!
Ty @ Mama of 3 Munchkins says
That looks so good!
Notorious Spinks says
This looks so good. I'd love to try this out.
Stefani says
I would LOVE to try this. Looks delicious.
Leilani says
Salmon is my favorite! This looks amazing!
Lolo says
I love salmon!
Donna says
This looks and sounds simply divine!
Toni says
That looks so yummy. I love salmon!!
Mellisa says
This salmon was amazing.