Healthy Honey Soy-Glazed Salmon

Salmon is incredibly good for you. It's packed full of omega-3, it's a low fat source of protein and it's especially great for protecting joints and preventing bowel cancer. Aside from these health benefits, it's also a really easy fish to cook and it's a great place to start if you think you don't like fish.

This recipe is based around the flavours of the East. The salmon is cooked so it just falls apart, the sauce is sticky and sweet with a good kick of spice and a lovely salty soy sauce hit. I really recommend this recipe for anyone wanting to be a bit healthier and for anyone who wants to love fish or for those who already do!

Healthy Honey Soy-Glazed Salmon

Serves 4

4 salmon fillets

3 tbsp of honey
50ml light soy sauce
Good pinch of chilli flakes or powder, to taste

2.5 cm (1in) peeled fresh ginger, grated
2 limes
Sesame oil (not essential, vegetable oil is fine)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Put the honey, soy sauce, chilli flakes or powder and ginger into a mug or small bowl and whisk everything together with a fork. Quarter the lime and set both aside.

Put a large frying pan on a medium heat with a tablespoon of sesame oil.

Season the salmon fillets well with salt and pepper, and fry them skin side up in the frying pan for 5 minutes.

Next carefully flip the fish fillets over to cook on the other side for about 4 minutes

Turn the heat up on the salmon and pour the honey sauce over. Allow to simmer for a couple of minutes, spooning the sauce over the salmon as the mixture thickens and becomes syrupy.

Squeeze over the lime, a quarter per fillet. The salmon is cooked when it is no longer translucent but an even pale pink through to the centre.

Serve the salmon fillet on top of rice and drizzle some of the syrupy sauce from the pan over each plate.