Easy, healthy home cooking: Super simple honey mustard salmon

This recipe — which uses only three ingredients plus salt — is so simple that a publisher rejected it in a previous form, according to cookbook author Amanda Haas. But it’s included in the pages of her new cookbook, “Homemade Simple,” and is already earning rave reviews from home cooks, she says.

The honey mustard glaze, made with only two ingredients, works well atop salmon as well as on chicken wings or roast chicken. One tip: Pick salmon fillets that are equal in thickness so that they cook evenly.

Honey-Mustard Salmon

Serves 4

INGREDIENTS

1/4 cup Dijon mustard

1/4 cup honey

Four 4-ounce salmon fillets, pin bones removed

Kosher salt

DIRECTIONS

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a small bowl, combine the Dijon mustard and honey.

Pat the salmon dry with a paper towel. Place the fish on the prepared pan, skin-side down, and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Bake until almost cooked through, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove the salmon from the oven and brush generously with the honey-mustard glaze. Return to the oven and roast until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Serve hot.

 — Courtesy Amanda Haas, “Homemade Simple: Effortless Dishes for a Busy Life” (Cameron + Company, $29)