After our first successful salmon dinner a couple of weeks ago I was eager to try it again. I saw pecan crusted salmon over on Julie’s blog and it inspired our meal. I had just enough leftover pecans from our trip to Texarkana for our dinner. I knew I wanted a tasty marinade for the salmon so I googled a bit and found the recipe we used for our meal. It was excellent! We used fresh salmon filets we got at HyVee on Saturday and I think they tasted much better than the frozen ones we bought before. It was a very excellent and classy Monday night dinner 
Served with baked potatoes and sauted green beans. Tyler once again did all the salmon work while I made the sides. So props to my co-chef Dinner usually comes together much quicker when we work as a team!
Pecan-Crusted Salmon with Honey Mustard Glaze (original recipe from betterrecipes.com)
Ingredients:
2 salmon fillets
1/4 c. honey
1/4 c. dijon mustard
1/8 c. olive oil, or as needed to thin glaze
1 T lemon juice
1 1/2 cup shelled pecans, finely ground
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
In small bowl combine honey, mustard, oil, lemon juice for glaze using just enough oil to keep glaze from getting too thick. Coat salmon lightly with glaze, then cover with ground pecans. Salt and pepper to taste. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Bake salmon on a baking sheet lined with foil for 12-15 minutes or until salmon flakes. Serve at once, top with more glaze if so desired.
Salmon looks and sounds great!
If you want to try another great salmon recipie – I just made a Honey/Lime glaze for salmon filets. It was a rachel ray recipie. Very yummy! It’s basically the juice of 1 lime, 3 large globs of honey, 1 tsp (or as much as you like) chili powder & mixed well in a shallow bowl. You coat the filets in the glaze and then, in a non-stick pan, you fry them in very light coating of olive oil for about 3.5 min each side. They came out perfectly. And, it seemed less like frying and more like extended searing – in the taste department, I mean.
Yeah!! The pecan crusting gives it an extra boost!
Looks super yummy! My husband often tries his hand at pecan salmon, but the nut mixture has a lot of butter in it and is patted on and broiled *after* the salmon is seared on the stove. This one looks and sounds a lot better.
Us vs. Food
Also, I just found your blog and I love your masthead pic!
Us vs. Food
This looks quite yummy, I totally missed it on Jule’s blog! Gonna add this to the “gotta make” list
Props to Tyler indeed. Job well done you two!
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Very nice!!
This is so delicious!!! I have been making this dish for a few years. A couple of tsp of lemon zest does the trick as well. Perfect croud pleaser!!
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