This baked salmon recipe is topped with a dijon dill butter sauce with a hint of shallot and served over zoodles (zucchini noodles) or rice.
This butter dill sauce is perfect for salmon and is a light summer dish.
Variations for Salmon with Dill Butter Sauce.
Summer got the kitchen too hot? Take the salmon and the dill sauce to the grill instead.
Don't have a spiralizer for the zucchini noodles? Substitute raw cucumber sliced by hand or boil some pasta or rice instead.
Don't like dijon mustard? Cool, leave it out.
Tips For Salmon with Dill Sauce
Don't burn the shallots. They should be soft and translucent for the butter dill sauce, not crispy. Reduce the heat if they are starting to crisp up.
Pin bones are the little bones that are sometimes in salmon. Remove them with some tweezers and pull them away gently holding the flesh of the salmon down (the flesh will be delicate if it's fresh). Pull them away in the direction that you think they got in.
Salmon with Dijon Dill Sauce and Zoodles
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This baked salmon recipe is topped with a reduced dijon dill butter sauce with a hint of shallot and served over zoodles (zucchini noodles) or rice.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 6
- Category: Dinner / Main Dish
- Method: Stovetop / Oven
- Cuisine: International
- Diet: Gluten Free, Keto, Low-Carb, Pescatarian
Ingredients
- 4 pieces (~6 oz each) salmon fillets, pin bones removed if applicable
- 1 ½ tablespoon olive oil , divided
- 3 tablespoon unsalted butter, cold, sliced & divided
- 1 small shallot, finely diced
- ½ cup white wine
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoon dill, chopped and divided
- 4 medium zucchini, spirilized into zoodles
- ½ teaspoon salt
- pinch black pepper
Instructions
- Place salmon on a lined baking sheet and sprinkle with a touch of olive oil, salt, and pepper. Bake 10-12 minutes or until cooked through and flaky.
- Bring a small pan to medium high heat and add 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon of the butter. Add shallots when butter is melted and cook ~ 3 minutes or until soft.
- Add wine, bring to a boil and simmer uncovered until reduced by half (~ 3-4 minutes).
- Reduce heat to low and whisk in mustard, 1 ½ tablespoon dill, salt, and pepper.
- Remove pan from heat. Add remaining 2 tablespoon butter and whisk into sauce.
- Add salt to sauce to taste.
- Plate raw zoodles and top with baked salmon. Drizzle on dill butter sauce.
- Garnish with remaining dill. Happy eating! Beckie
Notes
- Don't burn the shallots. They should be soft and translucent, not crispy. Reduce the heat if they are starting to crisp up.
Things In My Kitchen:
- Spiralizer - For making zucchini noodles / "zoodles"
- Whisk - Affordable set of 3 for whiskin' the sauce.
- Pin Bone Fish Tweezers - remove pin bones from fish and/or pluck your eyebrows.
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Serving Suggestion
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