Salmon with Garlic Butter and Capers. Melt the butter in a wide oven-safe skillet over medium heat. When the butter is bubbling, stir in the garlic and capers. Take the skillet off of the heat. And this Baked Salmon with Lemon Caper Butter was born. To make Baked Salmon with Lemon Caper Butter, I simply seasoned salmon fillets with salt and pepper and placed lemon slices on top before baking them in the oven.
Finally, a drizzle of lemon caper butter at the end makes this baked salmon, seafood dinner perfection.
Foil-baked salmon dish with a savory butter, garlic, and lemon sauce that includes dill and capers.
I like lots of butter and garlic!
You can have Salmon with Garlic Butter and Capers using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Salmon with Garlic Butter and Capers
- Prepare 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter,.
- It's of softened.
- You need 4-5 of anchovy fillets, minced (the ones packed in oil).
- Prepare 3 of fat garlic clove, minced.
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of coarse kosher salt.
- Prepare of Freshly ground black pepper.
- Prepare 4 of (6 to 8 ounce) salmon fillets. I cut the salmon into 3-4 inch pieces, it makes it easier to manage without breaking apart.
- You need 2 tablespoons of drained capers,.
- Prepare 1/2 of lemon.
- You need of Fresh chopped parsley, for serving.
For side dishes, we served steamed wild rice and steamed broccolini (with, you guessed it, more butter). Steam the broccolini al dente and then saute in butter till lightly charred. Make the caper butter: Meanwhile, melt the butter over low heat. Serve: When the salmon is done, squeeze with some lemon juice from remaining lemon slices.
Salmon with Garlic Butter and Capers step by step
- Heat oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl, mash together butter, anchovies, garlic, salt and pepper.
- In a large ovenproof skillet, melt about half the anchovy butter. Add fish, skin side down. Cook for 3 minutes over high heat to brown the skin, spooning some of the pan drippings over the top of the fish as it cooks. Add capers to bottom of pan and transfer to oven. Roast until fish is just cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes..
- Remove pan from oven and add remaining anchovy butter to pan to melt. Place salmon on plates and spoon buttery pan sauce over the top. Squeeze the lemon half over the salmon and garnish with chopped parsley. Serve..
Spoon the butter sauce over each piece of salmon. Garnish with finely chopped parsley or chives. Lemon caper sauce with garlic and butter is what makes this steelhead trout so tasty! Add capers, diced garlic, and lemon juice to the skillet. Minced anchovies and garlic add a complex salinity to seared salmon, enriching and deepening its flavor To get the most out of them, the anchovies and garlic are mashed into softened butter, which is used in two ways: as a cooking medium and as a sauce Used to cook the salmon, the butter browns and the anchovies and garlic caramelize, turning sweet While salmon is cooking, prepare the Lemon Caper Butter.