Baked Lemon Butter Salmon

easy baked salmon with lemon and butter on a white plate with asparagus and lemon slices

This Baked Salmon with Lemon and Butter is SUPER easy to make. Only consists of 4 ingredients and is on the table in 10 minutes. Seasoned with melted butter and lemon pepper this salmon recipe always turns out flaky with the perfect texture and drizzled with a warm buttery sauce!

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Diet Low Calorie, Low Fat

Prep Time 2

Cook Time 10

Total Time 12

Servings people

Calories 170kcal

Author Jillian Schneider

Equipment

shallow baking dish
tin foil

Ingredients

1 lb boneless, skinless salmon fillet
1 lemon thinly sliced
4 tbsp ghee or butter divided evenly amongst each fillet
4 tsp lemon pepper divided evenly amongst each fillet

Instructions

Step 1 - Preheat oven 450° and get a shallow baking pan and set it aside.
Step 2 - Lay your salmon fillets into a tin foil boat. 1 fillet for each boat. Top each fillet with lemon pepper, ghee or butter, and a slice of lemon. Close the tin foil with the salmon wrapped up inside.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes in the oven or until cooked through and flaky. Serve with your favorite vegetable. Mine is asparagus!

Notes

How can my kids help? My favorite way to have my children help out is to have them sprinkle the seasonings on top.

Also, it's very simple to cook anything in foil. It also helps you have no mess! Rip a piece of tin foil that is about 7 to 8 inches long. Lay your salmon in the middle of the foil and top it with your ingredients. Then, fold your foil up around the salmon and close it at the top. Voila!

Try and use fresh lemon over lemon juice squeezed from a bottle. Fresh lemon has a much better flavor than bottle squeezed lemon, but if you only have lemon juice in a bottle then that will work fine too.

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