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Simple and delicious, this Oven Baked Salmon recipe is cooked with potatoes and courgettes for a perfect midweek family friendly meal that’s all made in one pan. It’s drenched in garlic, herbs and lemon, making this a mouthwateringly healthy dinner.
This easy Baked Salmon recipe is succulent and full of flavour.
Looking to introduce more fish into your family’s diet? This one is a simple surefire winner.
Why you’ll love this Baked Salmon recipe
⭐ TIME: There is minimal prep with this and it takes just 20 minutes to cook in the oven
⭐️ HEALTHY: The salmon is full of nutrients – omega-3 fatty acids, protein, vitamins and potassium. Good for the body and brain’s wellbeing
⭐️ ONE PAN: You cannot beat a midweek one pan family dinner for hands-off ease
Sarah’s Notes
This one pan dinner is complete with potatoes and courgettes, but feel free to follow this recipe just to learn how to bake salmon in the oven.
Simply leave the extras out and bake it in foil for 20 minutes.
Ingredients for Baked Salmon
- Salmon – It’s best to use fresh skinless and boneless salmon fillets from the supermarket or fishmonger for this so we don’t have any fiddly work to do. This recipe serves 4 people – if you want to serve for more than this it may be more economical to buy a side of salmon. If you do decide to do this then you can follow this recipe, however you should increase your cooking time to around 30 minutes
- Potatoes – Use white potatoes for this
- Courgettes – You will need about 2 large ones, or your preferred vegetable
- Thyme – I use lemon thyme for this recipe but regular thyme works fine too
- Garlic – Fresh, peeled and crushed
- Lemon – This is for slicing
How to Bake Salmon in the Oven
1. Soften your potatoes by parboiling them or microwaving, then thinly slice them along with your courgettes and lemon.
2. Take a piece of foil, spray or brush it with oil, then arrange your potato slices in a line, slightly overlapping as you go. Do the same with the courgettes and sprinkle with thyme.
3. Lay your four salmon fillets on top of the courgettes, spacing them evenly so everything has room to cook. Add the lemon slices and thyme on top, along with a drizzle of oil and salt and pepper.
4. Wrap your tin foil parcel up and bake according to the recipe instructions below.
The best temperature to bake salmon at
You will get a nice, even cook by baking the salmon at 180℃ Fan/200℃/Gas Mark 6/400℃ F.
How long to bake salmon for
Salmon bakes well in about 20 minutes, but it may depend on your oven temperature as to exactly when it’s cooked perfectly.
If you’re not sure, keep checking and be careful not to overcook it.
It shouldn’t have that telltale white residue coming from it. If you notice this on the fish, remove it from the oven straight away.
Leftovers
In the fridge Baked salmon is perfect for cold leftovers the next day. It’s great in a salad, sandwich, pasta or with a jacket potato!
Top Tip for slicing
I use a mandolin to slice for this dish as they are so useful for a number of dishes.
I use it to make thick slices and then chop them up for making homemade chips too.
Mine is ancient and not available any more, but the mandolin in this link has excellent reviews.
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FAQs
This is a complete meal with potatoes and veg, but you might like to add a good quality mayonnaise to serve or a dollop of creme fraiche with lemon zest. You could also add some leafy spinach to the foil parcel 5 minutes before the end of cooking.
For additional veggies, cook some frozen petit pois to serve or more wedges of lemon.
Yes, this recipe works wonders for most types of fish too! You could try some seabass, cod or haddock if you want to go for a white fish. It’s up to you.
Yes! It’s naturally gluten free, no need to adapt.
Yes. Follow my Slow Cooker Salmon here.
You can also make it in the air fryer. Follow my Air Fryer Salmon recipe here.
You can but I would recommend defrosting it first and draining off any excess water before you bake it.
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Baked Salmon Recipe {Easy & Delicious!}
Ingredients
- 4 Salmon fillets
- 3 Potatoes
- 3 Courgettes, (or 2 big ones)
- 20 g Fresh thyme
- 2 Garlic cloves, Peeled and crushed
- 1 Lemon, Sliced
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180℃ Fan/200℃/Gas Mark 6/400℃ F.
- Boil or microwave your potatoes (in their skins) for about 10 minutes to just soften.
- Drain your potatoes and slice your potatoes and courgettes into approx 0.5 cm slices (or use a mandolin if you have one).
- Now cut a piece of foil that is big enough to create a parcel to hold your food, You need enough excess to wrap across the top of the ingredients.
- Spray of brush the foil with a little olive oil. Arrange the slices of partially cooked potato on the foil, overlapping them to fill the dish. Lay slices of courgette on top.
- Once all of the courgette has been used up, place the 4 salmon fillets on top, followed by a slice of lemon on each. Sprinkle with the fresh thyme, crushed garlic and a drizzle of oil.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Wrap the foil over the top of the salmon. Cook for 20 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Quite interesting and creative recipe.
It looks tempting .
I would love to try this out.
Thanks for sharing !!
keep Posting !!
That salmon looks amazing. I’m always looking for new ways to incorporate fish into our diets so I’ve bookmarked this x