This easy oven baked salmon with lemon butter recipe is cooked uncovered on a sheet pan at 375F with butter, salt, lemon zest, and fresh lemon juice.
Talk about fast and delicious "no brainer" simple salmon recipe. Lemon butter salmon is done in less than 15 minutes.
Easy Clean Up for Baked Salmon with Lemon Butter
This lemon butter salmon recipe is versatile. Cook the salmon with butter on a sheet pan lined with aluminum foil or parchment and you won't have to clean either!
The salmon can also be baked in aluminum foil or parchment packets or cooked in a baking dish if preferred.
Wild Caught or Farm Raised Salmon?
Wild salmon is generally thinner and also has less fat. It will cook faster. Check salmon at 8-10 minutes in the oven.
Farm raised salmon is generally fattier (not a bad thing!) as well as thicker. It will need the full 13-15 minutes and maybe more if your oven runs cooler or if the salmon is thicker.
I change my mind on farm vs wild caught salmon all the time. Currently, I am buying sustainably farmed salmon to leave the wild salmon for the orcas and bears and wildlife...
Remove Salmon Pin Bones Before Adding Lemon Butter
Sometimes salmon will have pin bones. Pin bones are the little bones that are sometimes in a fish filet.
Ask the butcher to remove them when buying or take them out yourself with some tweezers by gently pulling them away holding the flesh of the fish down.
Pull the pin bones away from the salmon in the direction that you think they got in and the direction that will cause the least disturbance and damage to the salmon.
If all else fails, leave the pin bones in and cook the salmon with the lemon butter. They can be removed before or while eating.
Easy Baked Lemon Butter Salmon Recipe FAQS:
Yup. Same temperature, same cooking time. Possibly even less clean up. Aluminum foil or parchment packets both work.
375F. Well that's the easiest answer. Cook it longer at 350 for a moister sorta "steamed" salmon or cook it at 400F for a shorter amount of time if you're trying to get it browned or roasted.
10-15 minutes at 375F depending on the thickness of the salmon and how fatty it is. Store bought wild salmon generally cooks faster because it is thinner and/or has a lower fat content. Farmed salmon generally has higher fat content and is thicker which takes a couple minutes longer.
Things In My Kitchen:
- Fish Spatula - One of the most beloved kitchen tools, especially for delicate fish and seafood.
- 13 x 18 Baking Sheet - Affordable, rimmed baking sheet set
- Microplane - For finely zesting that lemon.
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Easy Oven Baked Salmon with Lemon Butter
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This easy oven baked salmon recipe is cooked uncovered at 375F with butter, salt, lemon zest, and fresh lemon juice. Talk about fast and delicious "no brainer" dinners that are done in less than 15 minutes.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Coastal
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds Salmon (4 fillets)
- 3 tablespoon butter
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 lemon zested
- ½ lemon juiced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment for easy clean up.
- Mix room temperature butter with salt, lemon zest, and lemon juice.
- Slather on salmon. Get in there. Use your hands. It will be clumpy and messy. Enjoy the process but have a paper towel ready to get the butter off your hands.
- Bake salmon 13-15 minutes uncovered or until done.
Notes
- Wild salmon is generally thinner and also has less fat. It will cook faster. Check at 8-10 minutes in the oven.
- Farm raised salmon is generally fattier (not a bad thing!) as well as thicker. It will need the full 13-15 minutes and maybe more.
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