Oven-Baked Salmon

Name: Oven-Baked Salmon
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Bulgarian
Ingredients: 4 salmon fillets, skin on (about 150 g each); 50 g butter, softened; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 3 tbsp dill, finely chopped; 1 lemon; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp salt; to taste black pepper

🍳 CookingБГ

Prep10 min

Cook15 min

Total25 min

Salmon fillets baked in a hot oven under garlic-dill butter and lemon slices — a simple fish dish that works because the fillets come out just as the centre turns from glassy to opaque.

Ingredients

Serves:4

4 salmon fillets, skin on (about 150 g each)
50 g butter, softened
2 garlic cloves, crushed
3 tbsp dill, finely chopped
1 lemon
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
to taste black pepper

Nutrition (estimated)

medium confidence

388kcal · per serving

24.9g

Protein

3.9g

Carbs

29.7g

Fat

Recipe total: 1553 kcal · P 99.8g · C 15.5g · F 118.7g

Estimated from 7 of 8 ingredients

Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.

Video

Steps

1
Take the salmon out of the fridge 15 minutes before cooking and heat the oven to 200°C (fan 180°C) with the shelf in the middle.
2
Pat the fillets dry with kitchen paper and check for pin bones by running a finger along the flesh, pulling any out with tweezers.
3
Finely grate the lemon zest and mash it into the soft butter with the garlic, two-thirds of the dill, a pinch of the salt and some pepper.
4
Brush a baking dish with the olive oil and lay the fillets in it skin side down, 2–3 cm apart, then season them with the remaining salt.
5
Spread the garlic butter over the top of each fillet, squeeze over the juice of half the lemon and cover with thin slices cut from the other half.
6
Bake for 12–15 minutes, until the flesh flakes when pressed and the thickest part is just opaque, 52–55°C on a thermometer for moist salmon; it keeps cooking for a minute out of the oven, so take it out a touch early rather than late.
7
Rest for 2 minutes, spoon the melted lemon-garlic butter from the dish over the fillets and scatter with the remaining dill.

fishmaingluten-freebakedclassic

More recipes like this

🐟 Fish

Questions and answers

How long does Oven-Baked Salmon take to make?

About 25 minutes: 10 min prep and 15 min cooking.

What ingredients do you need for Oven-Baked Salmon?

8 ingredients: salmon fillets, butter, garlic cloves, dill, lemon, olive oil, salt, black pepper.

How many servings does this Oven-Baked Salmon recipe make?

4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.

How many calories are in a serving of Oven-Baked Salmon?

About 388 kcal, with 24.9 g protein, 3.9 g carbohydrate and 29.7 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.

Which diets does this Oven-Baked Salmon recipe suit?

It is gluten-free.

No ratings yet

← Back to Recipes