Easy Blackened Salmon Dinner
Skinless salmon filets work best for this Easy Blackened Salmon Dinner. If you buy the salmon fresh the person helping you will skin them if you ask. If you buy them frozen look for some that have already been skinned.
You could use a lot of different combos of ingredients in the dry “rub” to get a lot of different flavors. Tonight I went with salt, dried basil, cayenne pepper, dried dill weed, lemon pepper and garlic powder. You could mix them all together in a small bowl or just sprinkle them on the filets right out of their containers.
Ingredients
- Olive oil
- 1 russet or Idaho potato or 2 red potatoes cut into about 3/8″ slices
- 1/2 medium onion cut into wide strips
- 1 small zucchini cut into about 1/4″ slices
- 3 tablespoons fresh rosemary leaves or 2 tablespoons dried
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 appx. 6 oz skinless boneless salmon filets
For coating the Salmon Filets
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon dreid basil
- 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried dill weed
- 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
Let’s get this Easy Blackened Salmon Dinner going
The veggies are going to take a little more time than the salmon so let’s get them going first.
Gammy likes pan fried potatoes with onion and fresh rosemary so,,,,,,,,yup, I do it for her pretty regularly. You can cook another veggie right along with the potato and onion if you want. I went with zucchini tonight.
Put a skillet on at medium high with enough olive oil to coat the bottom. Slice up the veggies and put them into the skillet with the rosemary. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper.
Toss a couple of times to get everything coated evenly.
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While the veggies are cooking put a smaller skillet on at medium high and swirl in some olive oil. Top off the salon filets with half of the “rub” on the side without the gray stripe.
Put them in the skillet with the spicy side down and the gray striped side up.
Then spice up the stripe side and cook for 2-3 minutes a side depending on how thick they are and how well done YOU like them.
Toss the veggies a few more times as the salmon cooks.
When the veggies and the salmon are done serve it all up with a lemon wedge and enjoy your Easy Blackened Salmon Dinner.
Oh, yeah and some of Poppop’s easy homemade bread is a good tag along.
Here is another quick and easy salmon recipe.
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Easy Spicy Salmon Dinner
Ingredients
- olive oil
- 1 potato russet or Idaho or 2 red cut into about 3/8 " slices
- 1/2 medium onion cut into wide strips
- 1 small zucchini cut into about 1/4" slices
- 3 tablespoons fresh rosemary leaves or 2 tablespoons dried
- salt and pepper for the veggies
- 2 appx. 6 oz skinless salmon filets
for coating the salmon filets
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoons dried basil
- 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried dill weed
- 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Put a skillet on at medium high with enough olive oil to coat the bottom. Slice up the veggies and put them into the skillet with the rosemary. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper. Toss a couple of times to get everything coated evenly.
- While the veggies are cooking put a smaller skillet on at medium high and swirl in some olive oil. Top off the salon filets with half of the "rub" on the skinless side aka the side without the gray stripe. Put them in the skillet with the spicy side down and the gray striped side or skin side up. Then spice up the stripe side and cook for 2-3 minutes a side depending on how thick they are and how well done YOU like them.
- Put them in the skillet with the spicy side down and the gray striped side or skin side up. Then spice up the stripe side and cook for 2-3 minutes a side depending on how thick they are and how well done YOU like them. Toss the veggies a few more times as the salmon cooks. When the veggies and the salmon are done enjoy your Easy Blackened Salmon Dinner.
