Lemon, dill, butter, wine in a creamy sauce goes over the top of salmon for a complete gourmet easy dish.
During the summer we usually grill it but during the cooler months, we bake it.
You can actually use any citrus it really keeps the salmon moist and tender.
If you love seafood you may also like to try our Seafood Medley and Seafood and Crab Lemon Scampi recipes.
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Seafood
What I really love about this recipe is the ease of making a gourmet tasting meal, the sauce makes all the difference.
Fresh dill is always a first choice but dried in a pinch will work also.
Salmon is one of those healthy oily fish that absorbs all the flavors perfectly in every bite.
Ingredients You Will Need (see suggestions below for more flavor combinations)
- salmon, (or use sea bass, or halibut, cod, mahi-mahi, or other fish you prefer)
- white wine
- butter
- lemon
- fresh dill
- sliced garlic
- fresh parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
- Optional: rosemary sprigs
Other Favorite Topping Recipes
- teriyaki sauce with crushed pineapple and a little brown sugar
- mango, chopped green bell peppers, pineapple, and papaya
- pecans, brown sugar, and apricot preserves
- fresh lemon butter garlic sliced and fresh dill weed
- cajun spices, tequila, and hot sauce
- chicken broth butter and fresh parsley, basil, garlic with oregano
- jarred pesto
- heavy cream with dill and melted butter poured over smoked salmon after cooking
- rosemary, lemon wedges, black pepper, and butter
Alternate Cooking Methods
- Stovetop: saute in a gridded style cast iron pan with 2 tablespoons cooking oil or butter add other ingredients pan-fry around 10 minutes flipping once
- Air Fryer: preheat to 400 degrees, oil spray salmon using a pie plate that's oven-proof, or place on an oil sprayed basket. add whatever other ingredients 2 minutes before completed cooking on top it takes around 7 minutes or until salmon flakes easily
- Oven: preheat oven to bake at 400 degrees using the same directions as air frying but place on bake for 12 minutes with ingredients of choice on top around 6 minutes into baking
- Grilled: heat the grill to 400 degrees then place salmon, skin side up, on gas grill over medium heat, or on charcoal grill 4 to 6 inches from medium coals
Other Favorite Seafood Recipes
Pan-Seared Sea Bass Medley
Seafood Medley
Stuffed Shrimp and Crab Flounder
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Seafood Lovers!
I highly recommend this recipe if you're a salmon lover.
Fish is healthy and salmon has healthy oils to protect your heart.
If you love salmon, this is a great addition to your recipe collection.
Yield: 4

Lemon Dill Salmon
This is a delicious lemon dill sauce for grilled or baked salmon.
Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 13 MinTotal time: 23 Min
Ingredients
- Salmon
- 1 tablespoon olive oil or use cooking oil spray
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 3 crushed garlic cloves
- 4 salmon fillets around 1 pound
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Dill Sauce make this first and set it aside to keep warm
- 3/4 cup dry white wine
- 3 tablespoons chopped shallot
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
Instructions
- Sauce:
- Boil wine, shallot, and lemon juice in a medium saucepan over high heat until reduced to 1/4 cup, about 6 minutes.
- Reduce heat to low; add butter, 1 piece at a time, whisking until melted before adding more.
- Remove pan from heat. Stir in dill.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Salmon:
- Combine ingredients and brush on to the salmon saving some to brush on while cooking.
- Heat the grill or oven to 400 degrees then place salmon, skin side up, on gas grill over medium heat or on charcoal grill 4 to 6 inches from medium coals.
- Grill for around 8 to 10 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork, turning once and brushing occasionally with sauce use any remaining for serving.
- Baked: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Oil spray a baking pan, add the salmon and bake for around 15 to 20 minutes depending on the thickness of filets. Brush halfway through while cooking.
- Serve salmon with butter sauce..
Nutrition Facts
Calories
913.21Fat (grams)
65.52Sat. Fat (grams)
21.91Carbs (grams)
6.53Fiber (grams)
0.96Net carbs
5.57Sugar (grams)
2.96Protein (grams)
63.84Sodium (milligrams)
456.57Cholesterol (grams)
240.43
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I have been a follower for a while but just became a Facebook Fan as well as a Networks Blogs Fan. Happy Bloogiversary as well by the way!!
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Happy Blogoversary, Claudia!! I hope you celebrate many many more! xoxo
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Happy blogiversary chica!
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Congratulations! I never remember my blog anniversary so I wait for Frank at Memories of Angelina to announce his and then celebrate mine as he started a couple of weeks after me.
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I retweeted this, I hope my 2 followers check it out.
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Happy Blogiversary Claudia! Hope you have another awesome year of blogging! xoxo Your salmon rocks!
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Happy 2nd Blogaversary, Claudia! What a gorgeous giveaway. Wishing you all the best and looking forward for more from you...700th, 800th....posts! Have fun.
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First of all, I am in love with Trina! Happy Blogaversary to a very prolific writer!
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Such a fun giveaway...will tweat about it.
Love your Trina kitty...so cute!
Also you overlooked, that I have two awards for you when you commented.:D
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Congratulations Claudia on a fun and interesting 2 years... I feel as though I have been with you almost the entire time... so glad to have you as a foodie but more important, as a friend...
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Incredibly delicious salmon.... this is my kind of dinner:)
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