Quick Lemon Butter Salmon Fillets

We have salmon pretty often. It’s quick and easy to cook and doesn’t need a lot of extra stuff to jazz it up. These Quick Lemon Butter Salmon Fillets only take fifteen to twenty minutes. Just five ingredients and they make a very tasty healthy dinner. Great for a busy weeknight.

Ingredients

These amounts are for 2 servings. If you want different servings amounts scroll down to the recipe card that is below this posting. There you can change the number of servings and it will change all of the amounts of all the ingredients. Also you can switch all of the amounts to metric.

• 2 Salmon fillets – appx. 6-8 oz. each
• 2  lemons – cut into quarters
• 1 tbsp. dried dill weed 
• olive oil
• 4 tbsp.butter

How to cook up your Quick Lemon Butter Salmon Fillets 

First put your fillets in a bowl and squeeze the juice from one of the lemons on the fillets. Now sprinkle the dill weed onto the fillets. Turn the fillets over a few times getting them evenly coated with the  lemon and dill weed.

Let them rest while you put the skillet on at medium high. Eyeball just enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the skillet. Now add the butter. When the butter has stopped foaming lay the fillets in the pan with the skin side up. Or if they have been skinned then the side with the gray stripe in the middle will be the up side.

Now cook the fillets for about 3-4 minutes depending on their thickness. Turn them over and another 3-4 minutes. To test to see if they are done just take a table fork and gently insert it into the fillet. Twist it just a little and if it wants to flake it is ready. Another way to tell they are ready is when some white liquid shows on the top or the sides of a fillet they are  done.

Now enjoy your Quick Lemon Butter Salmon Fillets. 

I multi tasked and made a”baked” sweet potato in the microwave while the salmon was cooking. You can do it too. It’s easy.

Here are a few more quickened easy salmon recipes for you.

Poached Salmon with Capers and Wine Sauce

Baked Salmon Recipe

Lemon Garlic Honey Salmon

Quick Lemon Butter Salmon Fillets

Course: Main Course, Seafood main course

Cuisine: American, Gluten Free

Keyword: gluten free, main course, paleo, quick and easy, seafood

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 2

A very fast and very easy Salmon Dinner

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Ingredients

• 2 salmon fillets appx. 6 -8 ounces each
• 2 lemons cut into quarters
• 1 tbsp. dried dill weed
• olive oil
• 4 tbsp. butter

Instructions

• First put your fillets in a bowl and squeeze the juice from half of the lemon on the fillets. Now sprinkle the dill weed onto the fillets. Turn the fillets over a few times getting them evenly coated with the  lemon and dill weed.
• Let them rest while you put the skillet on at medium high. Eyeball just enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the skillet. Now add the butter. When the butter has stopped foaming lay the fillets in the pan with the skin side up. Or if they have been skinned then the side with the gray stripe down the middle will be the up side.
• Now cook the fillets for about 3-4 minutes depending on their thickness. Turn them over and another 3-4 minutes. To test to see if they are done just take a table fork and gently insert it into the fillet. Twist it just a little and if it and wants to flake it is ready. Another way to tell they are ready is when some white liquid shows on the top or the sides of a fillet ,they are done.