I have been down with a cold so I actually made this a few days ago but haven’t really been doing anything but surviving so I forgot to post it. Whoops!
Anyway, this is super simple with the salmon being baked and then you just have to make a simple white sauce to accompany it. I had it ready to eat in about 15 minutes.
What else is there to say?
Make it!
Baked Salmon with Browned Butter Sauce
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Recipe By: Megan
Recipe type: Dinner
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- 2 lb salmon filet with skin on
- course sea salt
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ½ cup white wine
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- chives for serving
Preparation Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 450˙.
- Place the filet, skin side down on a roasting pan, sprinkle with sea salt and place in oven, bake until flakes apart with a fork, about 15 minutes.
- While the fish is cooking, place the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Melt and cook until the butter browns, watch it carefully and swirl the pan as you go, it will turn fairly quickly and you don’t want it completely burnt, just a light brown color.
- Once the butter turns, add the flour and stir then quickly add the heavy cream and wine.
- Stir the sauce until slightly thickened then remove from heat and add some salt and pepper to taste.
- Remove the salmon from the oven and serve with a little of the sauce drizzled over the top and use some kitchen scissors to snip a few chives over the top.
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Looks beautiful, simple and mouth-watering. Thank you!
(Hope you recover soon!)
Thanks Claudine
I AM feeling much better today!
I am always looking for new recipe for salmon. This browned butter sauce sounds amazing. Thank you!
Very appetizing! The salmon looks very well! I always manage to ruin the look of baked fish – so they are never good to photograph! But this looks delicious!
The browned butter sauce sounds like the perfect accessory for this dish. We would probably add a squeeze or two to lemon juice for taste. Did you use fresh or frozen salmon in this recipe? Just curious as to what your preference is. Thanks for the recipe, Juliette!
I usually prefer to use fresh, wild caught salmon if I can get it at a reasonable price. Living in Colorado sometimes fresh fish can be very costly so I will use frozen if that is the case but we do all prefer the taste of the fresh. I hope you like the recipe, lemon juice would probably be very tasty but not necessary. If you try it let me know how it comes out
Thanks, Megan! Yes, we can imagine that fresh seafood would be expensive in Colorado. Are there any fresh-water resources available in your area (lakes and such)? Perhaps you could try this recipe out with an indigenous species like the Kokanee Salmon.
looks yummy!
Made this for supper tonight! It’s a keeper!
Is there anyway to maybe substitute the heavy cream for something a tad healthier?
You could certainly use a lower fat dairy product, half and half, or your choice of milk but you would of course be sacrificing the flavor of the sauce but I am sure it would still be very good.
I am eating this as I type. It is delicious!
I just made and ate this for dinner tonight. so easy! definitely adding this into my regular routine! thanks.
Nice! Been looking for info like this , thanks for posting, fresh diet.
backed salmon is my favourite. Iam looking for the sauce receipe now i got it tks a lot.
Looks AMAZING!! Linking back to this salmon today!
You’re so cool! I don’t believe I have read anything like this before.
So good to find somebody with genuine thoughts on this subject.
Seriously.. thank you for starting this up.
This website is something that is needed on the web, someone with a bit of originality!
Added lemon juice over the salmon and added capers in the sauce… DELISH! Who would have known that the wine would have made the sauce sweet?! Yummy!
Thanks Megan! This recipe was amazing, me and my wife really enjoyed it. Followed the recipe exactly as explained and it came out really good, although i might have added a little much on the wine felt a little buzz at the end lol. Best combination of salmon i have tasted yet.
Is there a substitute for the wine?
You could use chicken broth – the flavor will be a bit different but that is usually the substitute for white wine.
This recipe was really yummy and easy – my 2 favorite things when it comes to recipes! Thanks for sharing.