Garlic Butter Baked Salmon

This Garlic Butter Baked Salmon recipe
makes tender, flaky salmon brushed with an incredible garlic butter sauce! Baked on a sheet pan with your favorite veggies, this easy salmon recipe takes just a few minutes of prep and makes a perfect weeknight dinner idea.

THE BEST BAKED SALMON RECIPE EVER!

Garlic butter smothered salmon is, hands down, one of the easiest and tastiest seafood dinners you can make. It requires just a handful of ingredients and it comes together fairly quickly.

I almost always opt for a pan seared salmon because it yields a perfectly crisp exterior with a delicious and flaky interior. However, when I want to include a side dish together with our main dish, this Garlic Butter Baked Salmon recipe is my choice. This is especially true when I only have 30-ish minutes to get it all done.

Other times, it’s my One Sheet Pan Garlic Roasted Salmon with Brussels Sprouts – which is just as easy to make and it includes brussels sprouts!

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 30 mins

Perfectly baked salmon in the oven! Brushed with garlic butter sauce, this recipe makes amazingly tasty salmon baked on a sheet pan with broccoli florets.

Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Italian
Servings: 4 serves
Calories: 447 kcal

Ingredients

FOR THE SALMON AND VEGETABLES

• 4 (6 ounces each) salmon fillets
• 4 to 6 cups broccoli florets

FOR THE GARLIC BUTTER SAUCE

• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
• salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
• 1 lemon, halved, divided
• chopped fresh parsley, for garnish

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400F.
• Grease a sheet pan with cooking spray.
• Arrange broccoli florets and salmon fillets on prepared sheet pan.
• Rub minced garlic over each fillet. Set aside.
• In a mixing bowl whisk together melted butter, brown sugar, oregano, thyme, and rosemary.
• Pour the butter mixture over the salmon and veggies.
• Take half of a lemon and squeeze lemon juice over everything; then, season with salt and pepper.
• Place the sheet pan in the oven and cook for 15 minutes, or until the fish flakes easily with a fork and internal temperature is 145F degrees.
• Remove from oven and garnish with parsley.
• Serve with lemon slices.

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