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Top 10 Grilled Salmon Recipes

The best and most popular grilled salmon recipes at Barbecue & Grilling

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These easy grilled salmon recipes are the most popular on my site. Salmon is a great fish for the grill. Easy to grill, full or flavor, and widely available salmon has an excellent flavor that enhances every dish you use it for. Salmon is great all by itself but is also perfect for everything from tacos to hamburgers. Try these grilled salmon recipes and I'm sure you will agree.

1. Grilled Salmon with Dill and Lemon

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I love the combination of dill and lemon on Salmon. This Grilled Salmon Recipe is one of my favorites. If you have trouble flipping fish without it falling apart, purchase salmon steaks versus salmon fillets since they are easier to deal with on the grill.

2. Plank Grilled Salmon Steaks

These simple salmon steaks preserve the great flavor of the fish but get that great smoky flavor from smoldering wood.

3. Grill Smoked Salmon

This recipe for grilled salmon slow smokes the fish to give you great smoke flavor. Use good wood chunks to provide the smoke and don't hurry the cooking process. Traditionally you use alder or cedar wood with salmon, but for this recipe I suggest hickory, oak or cherry.

4. Maple Smoked Salmon

The maple syrup glaze in this recipe will give the smoked salmon a nice crusty surface that will lock in the juices and give it a mild, sweet flavor.

5. Grilled Salmon in Barbecue Sauce

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This rich barbecue sauce infuses flavor into the grilled fresh salmon, giving it a very mildly spiced and unique taste. Basically this is a BBQ Grilled Salmon that I'm sure you will love.

6. Chili-Lime Salmon

This is a very flavorful grilled fresh salmon dish. Remember to squeeze fresh lemon juice onto the salmon fillet when it comes off the grill to enhance it's flavors even more. This grilled salmon gets cooked indirectly to that it slow poaches keeping it from drying out.

7. Grilled Whiskey Salmon

These salmon fillets are grill hot and fast with a sweet whiskey marinade that gives them a lot of great flavor and nice, crisp glaze when grilled.

8. Miso Salmon

This is a simple and delicious Japanese inspired salmon recipe. It can be served with grilled vegetables or a salad.

9. Cedar Plank Salmon

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Cedar plank salmon is a classic recipe for the grill. You get all the flavor of the grill with real smoke even if you are using a gas grill with the convenience of cooking a large, delicate fish fillet on a cedar plank. This grilled salmon recipe is definitely going to please. One trick is to keep the salmon fillet on the cedar plank the whole time, from the preparation to serving. If you place the cedar plank on a sheet of foil you and put the whole thing on the table.

10. Firecracker Salmon

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This salmon is marinated in an Asian-style mixture with just enough spice and heat to give it a little kick. If you want to turn up the heat, double the amount of red pepper flakes.

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