This easy and delicious roasted salmon recipe is topped with buttery sautéed leeks. Bake salmon uncovered at 475F ~ 8-12 minutes and top with silky leeks cooked in butter.

4 Roast Salmon pieces with Buttery Leeks On Top In a Stainless Steel Pan

This salmon and leek recipe is one of my favorite food combinations.

Raw ingredients: parsley, butter tabs, big leek, and plate of 4 pieces of raw salmon.

Tips on Cooking This Salmon And Leek Recipe

This pan with the salmon goes in the oven cold and comes out hot. That means that both the pan and the handle are HOT HOT HOT. When you take it out of the oven, put a dishtowel immediately around the handle so that you or anyone in your household does not grab it.

Wild salmon cooks faster than farmed salmon due to a lower fat content and wild salmon is generally thinner.

So wild salmon will be done closer to the 8 minutes mark. Farmed salmon will take longer and may be more toward the 12 minute mark, generally speaking

4 Pieces of Roast Salmon In a Stainless Steel Pan. Garnished with chopped parsley — *Don't add the leeks if you don't want. Still delicious!*

Prepare The Leeks For The Salmon

How to prepare leeks before cooking and adding to the top of the cooked salmon:

Trim the root end of the leek and cut off the dark green leaves (keep the pale green part of the leek).
Cut in half lengthwise and run under water to get rid of any dirt in the layers.
Slice leeks.

TIP: Save the dark green leaves of the leek and make vegetable stock later.

4 pieces of salmon on an aqua platter with sliced cooked leeks on the side of plate.

Remove The Pin Bones From Salmon If Needed

Pin bones are the little bones that are sometimes in a fish filet. They are annoying at the least. And maybe you won't have any!

Remove salmon pin bones with tweezers and pull them away gently holding the flesh of the fish down (the flesh will be delicate if it's fresh). Pull them away in the direction that you think they got in. It will be intuitive hopefully 🙂

4 pieces of salmon on an aqua platter with sliced cooked leeks on top. Top view.

Roast Salmon with Buttery Leeks

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This easy and delicious roasted salmon recipe is topped with buttery sautéed leeks. Bake salmon at 475F ~ 8-12 minutes and top with buttery leeks.

Author: beckie
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: 4
Category: Main Dish
Method: Stovetop / Oven
Cuisine: International
Diet: Gluten Free

Ingredients

Ingredients Salmon

4 salmon fillets, skin on and pin bones removed
3 tablespoon unsalted butter
¼ cup parsley, chopped
salt
black pepper

Ingredients Leeks:

1 large leek, halved, rinsed, and sliced
1 ½ tablespoon unsalted butter
¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 475F.

Directions Leeks:

Trim the root end of the leek and cut off the dark green leaves (keep the pale green part of the leek).
Cut leek in half lengthwise and run under water to get rid of any dirt in the layers. Slice leeks.
Bring a small pan to medium heat and add 1 ½ Tbsp butter.
Add sliced leeks and salt. Cover and cook ~ 4 -6 minutes (stirring occasionally), or until leeks are starting to get translucent but still retain some color. Reduce heat if butter or leeks starts to brown.
Remove leeks from heat and set aside.

Directions Salmon:

Salt and pepper salmon.
Add butter and parsley evenly to a large oven safe pan that will fit all four pieces of salmon. Place pan in oven (without salmon) for a couple minutes until you hear or see the butter is starting to sizzle.
Remove pan (and remember that this pan is HOT) and place salmon skin side up in the pan.
Bake uncovered 4-5 minutes or until the skin easily peels off.
Peel off skin, flip salmon and cook an additional 2-4 minutes or until salmon is done to your preference.
Top with buttery leeks and add salt to taste.

Notes

This pan and handle is HOT. When you take it out of the oven, put a dishtowel immediately around the handle so that you or anyone in your household does not grab it.
Wild salmon cooks faster than farmed salmon because it has less fat but is also generally thinner.