Easy Pan Seared Garlic Salmon Recipe
This simple pan-seared garlic salmon recipe is perfect for those busy weeknights or when you want to impress your dinner guests with minimal effort.
Ingredients
- Salmon salted and thawed
- 2 tbsp butter
- 3 cloves garlic
- Pinch salt and pepper for taste
- Lemon sliced
Instructions
- Salt the salmon fillet ahead of time, at minimum 2 hours or overnight in fridge.
- Add 2 tbsp butter in pan.
- Place salmon fillets skin down in pan. Cook on med heat for 10 min.
- In meantime, chop 3 cloves garlic.
- Flip salmon over.
- Peel off skin.
- Sprinkle with garlic, pepper and salt.
- Add sliced lemons around the salmon in pan.
- Reduce to low heat. Cook for another 10 minutes.
- Flip salmon again and cook additional 5 to 7 min, depending on thickness.