braided salmon
I’d like to revisit one of my favorite recipes in honor of spring! It’s such a delicious and easy recipe, but it looks impressive and it’s good for you, too! You can use your favorite marinade, although this marinade gives tons of flavor in minimal time. It’s easy and fast and would be great served at a dinner party, especially since it can be marinated then braided ahead of time. I hope you enjoy it!
honey ginger braided salmon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/3 cup low sodium soy sauce
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 1 1/2 lbs salmon filets (have your butcher remove the skin if necessary!)
Combine first six ingredients. Place salmon in dish and cover with marinade. Turn fish gently to distribute marinade. Refrigerate 15 minutes or up to 30 minutes for stronger flavor, turning fish occasionally.
Slice salmon into thin strips – about 1/2 inch is best or slightly thicker – and braid each three pieces together into one braid. Hold together with toothpicks if needed, although as they grill they will “fuse” together, so as long as you can get them to the grill in one piece they’ll be fine. You can also braid the whole fillet into one big braid, although it’s much more difficult to hold together and the individual braids look much better on a serving plate.
Lightly grease grill rack, and preheat grill to medium heat. Remove salmon and reserve the marinade. Grill 12-15 minutes per inch of thickness or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Brush with reserved marinade up until the last 5 minutes of cooking time.
I served this with grilled baby bell peppers stuffed with ricotta, cream and parmesan cheeses. Dessert was biscuits baked in butter and brown sugar, then topped with strawberries and pineapple…yum!
What a fun idea!!
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Wow, I love salmon and this looks awesome. Great marinade! I will have to try it. I wonder how good I would be at braiding…
That marinade sounds delicious!
Ooh! Pretty Salmon!
I remember the first time I braided bread and being all amazed, I can only imagine with Seafood!
thanks will try as soon as I get my hands on some.
What a neat idea! Looks great!
That’s one tasty looking salmon and the dessert looks too good to eat.
ooooh! how creative, and seems easy too, well the braiding could be a little difficult for me! lol
BEAUTIFUL! Can’t wait to Braid my Salmon! :)
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Hope you are enjoying your new home, city & state!
They are gonna love you! :)
It’s awfully pretty,I would never have thought of braiding something besides bread!
Wow, salmon braided? That’s pretty awesome!
That is a really great idea. I’m going to try it this week with my salmon.
This looks really good..very clever.
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is the skin on the salmon when you braid it. please reply to me at: arbor-us@ns.sympatico.ca
thanks
trevor
Hey Trevor,
I had my butcher take the skin off for me. I’ll pop you an email, too!
That looks really wicked. Very fancy, what a great idea. I’m going to try that next time when I get a nice piece of salmon.
Wow! Just catching up on emails, and this recipe was in there… looks wonderful and will definitely try it. Thanks for sharing!
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Loving it, original idea as have never really seen that done with salmon before. I think I did it with something like plaice in college but never salmon, looks pretty
Keep up the good work.
thanks for sharing-us canucks love our salmon!
Boy the timing of the universe is fantastic – I must increase the amount of salmon in my diet and here you have a delicious recipe! And just when I was getting bored with mine! Thanks so much! I’m also with you on the thinking about soups, stews etc. It’s been so chilly this summer I actually made some a few times during the summer, which I never do ordinarily.
Never seen salmon prepared this way. Well done! Looks fantastic and so much fun :)
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