
15-Minute Salmon With Lemon Butter Sauce
A quick and reliable weeknight dinner featuring pan-seared salmon fillets topped with a simple garlic and lemon butter sauce.
4
Salmon fillets
1/2 tsp
Salt
1/4 tsp
Black pepper
1 tbsp
Olive oil
4 tbsp
Unsalted butter
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A quick and reliable weeknight dinner featuring pan-seared salmon fillets topped with a simple garlic and lemon butter sauce.
Instructions
- Pat the Salmon ingredients dry with paper towels and season both sides with salt and pepper.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the salmon fillets and cook for 4 to 5 minutes per side until golden brown and cooked through.
- Remove the salmon from the pan and set aside on a plate.
- In the same skillet, lower the heat to medium and add the Sauce ingredients starting with the butter and minced garlic.
- Sauté the garlic for 1 minute until fragrant, then whisk in the lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- Pour the completed sauce over the cooked salmon fillets and serve immediately.
Ingredients
4
- Salmon
- 4 Salmon fillets
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/4 tsp Black pepper
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- Sauce
- 4 tbsp Unsalted butter
- 2 cloves Garlic-minced
- 1/2 Lemon-juiced
- 1 tbsp Fresh parsley-chopped
Equipment
- Large skillet
- Spatula
- Whisk
Instructions
- Pat the Salmon ingredients dry with paper towels and season both sides with salt and pepper.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the salmon fillets and cook for 4 to 5 minutes per side until golden brown and cooked through.
- Remove the salmon from the pan and set aside on a plate.
- In the same skillet, lower the heat to medium and add the Sauce ingredients starting with the butter and minced garlic.
- Sauté the garlic for 1 minute until fragrant, then whisk in the lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- Pour the completed sauce over the cooked salmon fillets and serve immediately.
Nutrition per serving
Calories
420
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