5-ingredient chile crisp and honey salmon
Chile crisp lovers, this one’s for us.
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July 10, 2025
Chile crisp and honey roasted salmon is shown in a white baking dish with a serving spoon and fork. An arugula salad is nearby.
Naz Deravian’s chile crisp and honey roasted salmon. David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

I will never quit you, spicy chile crisp

By Mia Leimkuhler

Are you tired of recipes that use chile crisp? Have you had enough of putting that salty, spicy, crispy-crunchy, sometimes mouth-tingly condiment to work as a frying oil, main seasoning agent or lifting finish? Have you given up on making your own (which is incredibly easy and economical)? Or have you stopped picking up the jars you like from the store, having tried out different brands and mixes that suit all sorts of preferences and spice tolerance levels?

Yeah, me neither.

For all my spicy chile crisp companions — or anyone who wants an easy-peasy salmon dinner — here’s Naz Deravian’s new chile crisp and honey roasted salmon. A simple glaze of chile crisp, honey, lemon zest and mayonnaise coats a generous slab of fish, which gets a quick roast in a 375 degree oven. The mayonnaise, you might have guessed, is there not so much for flavor but as a sauce binder and insurance against dryness, functioning much as it does in this mayo-marinated chicken and this grilled broccoli. Naz’s salmon, a pot of rice and a cold, crunchy cucumber salad? That’s a fantastic meal brought to us by our friend, spicy chile crisp.

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And before you go

If you are a person who has bought something on the internet, you probably know that Amazon is currently running its annual Prime Day sale. Should you be in the market for a new blender or better food storage containers, our pals at Wirecutter have you covered.

And if you have a birthday to celebrate in the near future, I have three words for you: s’mores layer cake. Sorry, four more words: Kitchen torches are fun. Watch Yossy Arefi make her cake (and torch some meringue!) by clicking the image below:

A kitchen torch toasts meringue in a bowl.
We really need scratch ’n’ sniff emails for things like this. Yossy Arefi

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