Lemon Butter Salmon Filets

These Lemon Butter Salmon Filets are a real simple, quick and easy way come up with a very nice and a very healthy weeknight dinner

Here are your ingredients

These amounts are for 2 servings. And you can change the number of servings on the recipe card below this post. That will automatically change the amounts of all of the ingredients. And you can covert the recipe amounts to metric.

appx. 2 tbsp. olive oil
2 tbsp. butter
2 appx. 6-8 oz Salmon Filets
juice from one fresh lemon – (appx. 3 tbsp.)
1/4 cup white wine
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley or 1/4 cup dried

And here is how to easily put together your Lemon Butter Salmon Filets

Put a skillet on the stove at medium high. And add enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the skillet then add the butter.

When the butter has stopped foaming add the salmon filets to the pan with the skin side up. But, if your filets have been skinned the side of the filets with the gray area in the middle will be your up side.

And give the salmon just about 1 1/2 – 2 minutes a side depending on how well done that you like them and how thick they are. I check them with a table fork by stabbing it into the meat a little and gently twisting it. And if it wants to flake that’s how we like it.

Remove them to a plate on the back of the stove or in the oven set on warm. Now add the lemon juice, white wine and the parsley leaves to the skillet. You could use rosemary, basil or sage instead of parsley if you prefer. And if you don’t have fresh herbs dried will work. Just use about half as much dried as fresh. Stir it all together.

Let the liquids come back up to sizzling and top off the filets with that lemon butter parsley mixture from the skillet and enjoy your Lemon Butter Salmon Filets.

Here are some more easy salmon recipes for you

Baked Salmon Recipe
Poached Salmon with Capers and Wine Sauce
Lemon Garlic Honey Salmon
Easy Blackened Salmon Dinner