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Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce

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This Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce is simple to make but tastes gourmet – baked salmon with a delicious creamy dill sauce.

If you need an elegant and delicious, yet easy dinner, this Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce is it. The salmon is simply covered in some seasoning and oil, then baked for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, you make a creamy delicious dill sauce that is a little sweet, a little salty, and very creamy. It’s one of the easiest dishes I make and also one of our family’s favorites. My kids love it too. Especially with some mashed potatoes on the side.

This recipe is one of our tried and true meals for almost 2 decades! I’ve been making this recipe for years – this salmon was the first dish I ever cooked for my husband when we were then dating – he said it tasted like a restaurant! Best compliment ever to a college student. The best part is, it’s so easy. It seems a lot more complicated than it is.

One thing I love about this Salmon is you can prep it all and have it in the oven within 5 minutes. Then only 15 minutes to cook. It really is fast, simple, and requires little clean up.

Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce

This Salmon with Creamy Dill Sauce is simple to make but tastes gourmet – baked salmon with a delicious creamy dill sauce.

Ingredients

Salmon

  • 1.5 – 2lb. filet salmon (I like Atlantic salmon)
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter or olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons lemon zest
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Creamy Dill Sauce

  • 2/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
  • 1/3 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 2 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped finely
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Salmon

  • Preheat oven to 400°F.
  • Line a baking pan with parchment paper, and place salmon skin side down onto paper. (The skin easily falls off once cooked.)
  • Brush salmon with butter or oil, then add salt, pepper, and lemon zest evenly over the top. (If you'd like it extra lemony you can place several lemon slices on top while baking. Or feel free to leave them off.)
  • Once oven is preheated, bake salmon for 15-17 minutes (time will vary slightly based on thickness and weight of salmon), until edges are sizzling and salmon flakes away with a fork.
    Lightly salt again once it comes out of the oven.
  • To serve, slice the salmon into serving-sized stripes with a knife, then use a spatula to remove from the skin and place on plates. The salmon should easily slide off the skin when it's cooked.

Creamy Dill Sauce

  • In a small bowl or tupperware, whisk together all the sauce ingredients except the milk. Then add a little milk slowly. You can add as much milk or as little as you'd like to make the sauce thicker or thinner. We like it a little thick so it stays on the salmon without getting too runny.
  • Once the salmon is done, serve a spoonful of sauce on each salmon piece. The sauce tastes great on the salmon and on any sides. We love to serve this with mashed potatoes and some kind of greens – a salad, asparagus, or fresh green beans.
  • The sauce can be stored in the fridge, in an airtight container for up to a week.
  • Enjoy!

Click here to see my other Main Dish recipes. I hope you get a chance to make this Salmon – our family loves it and I know you will too.

Be sure to tag me @plumstreetcollective if you get a chance to make this – you’ll love it.

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