You will have a quick and easy main with less than 5 ingredients.
Salmon marinade and ceramic cooker.
Whisk well until smooth.
Once hot carefully spray the grates with a nonstick grill spray.
Uneven heat can make cooking salmon difficult for even experienced cooks.
Then make the marinade.
While the salmon is in the multipot you can whip up a quick salad or side dish and dinner is served.
Remove salmon from marinade.
When ready to grill start your traeger grill on smoke with the lid open until you see smoke appear takes 3 5 minutes.
Plus this recipe is paleo friendly and suitable for the whole30 diet.
This pressure cooker version creates moist and tender salmon in just 15 minutes.
Add salmon fillets skin side up into the marinade and place in the fridge for 15 45 minutes.
Place salmon skin side down on grill.
Heat coals or gas grill.
This super easy salmon marinade is heavy on the lemon garlic and fresh and dried herbs.
Preheat the grill to medium heat.
Cover and grill over medium heat 10 to 20 minutes brushing 2 or 3 times with marinade until salmon flakes easily with fork.
Generously brush the salmon marinade over the top and sides of each piece.
Discard any remaining marinade.
It packs the fish with a ton of flavor while also keeping it from drying out essentially it s a brine and marinade wrapped into one.
I intentionally left lemon juice out of this recipe because acids like lemon juice can actually cook the salmon as it sits in the marinade.
Plus thanks to the salt and water in this marinade you can expect less of that white stuff that seeps out of salmon as it cooks it s just a protein called albumin.
The salmon sits in the marinade for up to 6 hours then is grilled or broiled to perfection.
The marinade for this salmon is a mixture of olive oil honey soy sauce lemon zest and herbs.