
How To Make Pan Seared Salmon
Grab a bite of this delicious salmon recipe for your next big dinner! It’s pan-seared in a lemon garlic butter sauce. Whip this up in just 30 minutes.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 28ozsalmon filetsskinless, room temperature
- Salt and pepperto season
- 3tbsplemon juicedivided
- 1tbspolive oil
- 2tbspbutter
- 8garlic clovesfinely chopped or minced
- 4tbspItalian parsley leavesfresh chopped, divided
- lemon slicesof half a lemon
Instructions
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Pat dry the salmon filets with paper towel.
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Season the salmon with salt and pepper.
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Squeeze 1 to 2 teaspoons of lemon juice over each filet, and rub the juice against the skin.
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Heat the olive in a large non-stick pan or skillet over medium-high heat until hot.
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Place salmon filets flesh side down, pressing them lightly against the pan.
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Sear, undisturbed, for 3 to 4 minutes until crispy and golden.
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Flip and sear the other side of each filet for 2 minutes.
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Add in the butter, chopped garlic, 3 tablespoons of parsley, remaining lemon juice and lemon slices.
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Stir the butter and garlic around each filet.
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Continue to cook the salmon for a further 1 to 2 minutes, or until salmon reaches desired doneness.
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Season with salt and pepper to taste, and add more lemon juice if desired.
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Garnish with the remaining parsley then drizzle the butter over each filet.
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Serve hot, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 508.07kcal
- Fat: 35.88g
- Saturated Fat: 10.19g
- Trans Fat: 0.23g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 11.45g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 8.31g
- Carbohydrates: 3.46g
- Fiber: 0.46g
- Sugar: 0.39g
- Protein: 41.19g
- Cholesterol: 124.41mg
- Sodium: 536.84mg
- Calcium: 39.70mg
- Potassium: 788.25mg
- Iron: 1.11mg
- Vitamin A: 64.75µg
- Vitamin C: 19.09mg
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