Recipe: Baked Salmon with Honey Mustard Maple Syrup Glaze

Healthy AND delicious is a magnificent combo. Throw in an easy prep and you’re sitting pretty. If you want to add some difficulty, you can go catch a salmon or two yourself and then do all the prep to turn it into baked salmon. Buying some from the store is probably a safer bet.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Put the salmon skin-side down on a foil-lined baking sheet. On a cutting board, slice an avocado and cucumber, setting both aside.

In a small bowl, combine the mustard, olive oil, and maple syrup. You have to invest in legitimate maple syrup for this. It’s a bit more expensive, but it enhances the taste SO MUCH. You also won’t ingest the excessive amount of preservatives and other terrible things in a generic bottle of syrup. That’s always a plus.

You want the final glaze to have a little bit of heft to it so you can spread it evenly across the fillet. Get it nicely coated and gleaming with that beautiful maple mustard glaze. Once you do that, it’s just 12-15 minutes in the oven until your salmon is fully cooked.

Alternate cucumber and avocado slices around the baked salmon fillet – they’re yummy snacks on their own or give an extra burst of flavor to each bite of salmon. The world is your oyster…or, in this case, it’s your salmon. So eat up!