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Maple-Bourbon Glazed Salmon

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Maple-Bourbon Glazed Salmon
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Has Potential

This speedy recipe uses staple ingredients and provides 790 milligrams of potassium per serving--97 percent of it from the salmon.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 fillet)

Ingredients

  • 5  teaspoons  fresh orange juice, divided
  • 1  tablespoon  maple syrup
  • 1  teaspoon  bourbon
  • 1/8  teaspoon  ground red pepper
  • 4  (6-ounce) salmon fillets
  • Cooking spray
  • 1/4  teaspoon  salt

Preparation

Preheat broiler.

Combine 1 teaspoon juice, syrup, bourbon, and pepper, stirring with a whisk. Place salmon on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray. Brush syrup mixture evenly over salmon, and sprinkle with salt.

Broil salmon 5 minutes. Remove pan from oven; drizzle 1 teaspoon juice over each fillet. Broil 1 minute or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.

Nutritional Information

Calories:
291 (41% from fat)
Fat:
13.1g (sat 3.1g,mono 5.7g,poly 3.2g)
Protein:
36.2g
Carbohydrate:
4.1g
Fiber:
0.0g
Cholesterol:
87mg
Iron:
0.7mg
Sodium:
228mg
Calcium:
25mg
Maureen Callahan, Maureen Callahan, Cooking Light, APRIL 2005

Member Ratings and Reviews

5 stars
EJ
Very bland. I won't make this again; CL has plenty of other great salmon recipes.08/01/07

5 stars
sdmgrace
A pretty boring and bland recipe. I think that it needed more pizazz to it. The sauce did not add much flavor to the fish, nor did it stay on the fish. The Sweet Orange Salmon is much better.06/22/06