Easy Baked Salmon With Lemon Butter Cream Sauce

The kind of recipe perfect for busy weeknights when you don’t have time to cook. This baked salmon with an incredible lemon butter cream sauce comes together so easily, you’ll be shocked it was made at home!

EASY SALMON RECIPE

If you’ve had our Easy Salmon Piccata or our Easy Honey Garlic Salmon, you’d know how much we love an easy salmon recipe. Well, this easy baked salmon is no different! A truly effortless 15 minute recipe, this salmon is baked first with garlic, lemon and optional white wine, then drizzled with a crazy good sauce straight into the pan. The natural pan juices released from the fish while baking, mix through the cream sauce to create one hell of a salmon dish! Using minimal ingredients that you likely already have in your kitchen, you’ll have the most tender salmon fillets drowning in a creamy, lemon butter sauce on a plate in minutes.

OVEN BAKED SALMON

When salmon is cooked in the oven, it doesn’t get that sexy, brightly seared orange colour with crispy edges. What you do get, is tender salmon just about falling apart with each forkful. The only thing salmon needs is a good amount of flavour rubbed all over it before baking and of course, a magic sauce to drizzle over it when it’s done. That’s where our easy baked salmon recipe comes in. You’ll love the generous amount of creamy sauce that you’ll simply have to mop up with a couple of slices of our Artisan Bread, Soft Dinner Rolls or Cheesy Garlic Bread. Pour over plain rice or Creamy Mashed Potato! What you need:

Salmon fillets – middle pieces roughly the same size and thickness are the best for even cooking. White wine – can be omitted or subbed for dijon mustard. Wine adds that restaurant flavour. Garlic – just because. Cream – use heavy cream (or thickened cream) if you can. You can also use half and half (an American product using half milk and half cream). Butter – more flavour! Lemon – is salmon’s best friend.

WHAT TEMP TO BAKE SALMON

Bake your salmon, uncovered, at 425°F (220°C) on the middle shelf of your oven. spoon pouring thick, lemon butter sauce ob

MEDIUM: 4 minutes per ½-inch. WELL DONE: 6 minutes per ½-inch.

The salmon fillets pictured needed 11 minutes. Be careful not to over bake as salmon can become dry and unpleasant to eat when over-cooked. Check the thickest part of your salmon fillets with a fork. Once the flesh easily flakes and softly falls apart, it’s ready! You can also use an instant read thermometer to check for doneness. The USDA recommends a minimum internal temperature of 145°F (61°C). For an accurate reading, insert thermometer into the thickest part of the salmon.