The Best Salmon Recipes

The Joys of Cooking Salmon

Salmon has been discovered to be one of the healthiest types of fish you can eat. It doesn't have a "strong" fishy flavor which lets it be paired wtih many types of other foods, and it's firm texture makes it easy to cook for beginning fish chefs.

Salmon is most often cooked as a fillet (a thin cut down the side of the fish with no bones) or a steak (a cross-section of the fish). Recipes can be as simple as some pepper and olive oil sprinkled on, or they can feature fancy sauces.

In addition to being a good lean source of protein, salmon is also rich in omega-3 fatty acids, found to boost good cholesterol and decrease the bad form. These polyunsaturated fats have been found to help with heart disease, arthritis and other inflammatory conditions.

Please take just a moment and educate yourself on why you should buy wild-caught and not farmed salmon and why we need to support environmental efforts to protect our salmon resources.

Salmon is easily-prepared

Salmon is easily broiled or grilled, just sprinkled with a touch of salt and pepper and drizzled with a little olive oil.

Salmon Recipe Archive

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Salmon Fillets

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Salmon with Roast Garlic Topping

This is my favorite way to cook salmon!

Ingredients:

1 head of garlic, medium size
1/4 C. olive oil
1 1/2 tsp. butter
4 salmon flllets, about 6-7 oz. each
2 tsp lemon juice, fresh-squeezed
2 tsp rosemary, fresh-chopped

How to Prepare:

Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees.Separate the garlic into cloves and peel. Put these in a small baking dish and pour enough olive oil over them to cover them. Wrap the dish in two layers of aluminum foil and bake for approx 30 minutes. The cloves should become nice and tender.
After you remove the garlic, increase the oven temp to 450 degrees to pre-heat for the fish.
Use a slotted spoon to fish the cloves out of the oil and put them into a food processor. Add about a tablespoon of the oil they were baking in, and the butter. (The remainder of the garlicky oil is nice served with a crusty bread for dipping as an appetizer). Puree the garlic, butter and oil, then season with salt and pepper to taste.
Put the salmon on a baking sheet. I like to oil it slightly, put down a lettuce leaf, or a piece of baking parchment to keep the fish from sticking. Salt and pepper each fillet, then drizzle generously with lemon juice. Spread garlic puree evenly over the fillets.
Bake until salmon is cooked through, approximately 15-20 minutes. Sprinkle with rosemary and serve. (I like to serve it over greens, rice or mashed potatoes).

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Wild Salmon

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Marti says:
3 years ago

I lopve salmon! Husband actually got to go catch one when we lived in San Francisco - heavenly! Thanks for sharing!

jstankevicz says:
2 years ago

Great HubPage! Farm raised salmon is such a disappointment. A good concept, gone bad. Regards, Jack

got dinner says:
2 years ago

One of my favorite is when small whole wild salmon is available. This simple receipe goes great with rice, fresh green beans and crusty bread.

In an oven save dish just big enough for the fish with head and tail removed, melt one stick of butter. Place salmon in dish and in oven at 350. Turn over in 10 minutes and cook till done (depends on size).

Serve with the melted butter as the sauce and it goes great on the rice or to dip the bread in.

Judy Asman says:
2 years ago

Congrats on your newsletter profile! I'm glad they wrote about you. I just so happen to have freshly caught Alaskan salmon from my brother. Was wondering what to do with it. I'll try one of your recipes.

relache says:
2 years ago

Freshly-caught is the best! Enjoy!

Donald Miller says:
2 years ago

The Smokey Bones restaurant chain serves grilled salmon. It is served with a tangy sweet glaze. I have been unable to duplicate the flavor. Do you know how the chain prepares their glaze.

relache says:
2 years ago

Not a clue, Donald. You'll just have to eat it until you can reverse engineer it...

Rudra says:
2 years ago

love salmon. love it grilled with olive oil, mustard and herbs all over it, thanks.

Misha says:
2 years ago

I love salmon, too - but just the raw one. Cooking kills the tenderness...

butler01 says:
2 years ago

I have never had the pleasure of eating salmon other than my moms salmon croq.lol I will have to try your recipe. Thanks for sharing.

Evelyn Lim says:
2 years ago

The picture here caught my eye. I just had to check out the salmons featured here! Yummy!

new horizons says:
2 years ago

Hi Relache,

Salmon is my all time favorite fish here in the Pacific Northwest, and I am always looking for good recipes. Thanks for a great site, and thanks also for mentioning the need to forego farmed salmon.

All fish farming is an ecological disaster and a nutritional disaster, too. So, I encourage people NOT to eat farmed fish, and to insure that the world's wild fish stocks are managed carefully.

I'm new to HubPages, so I hope you will come check out my first Hubs, too.

Take care!

Live N Learn says:
2 years ago

Hi, Relache! I like your hubs. In fact, you're the first hubber I knew when I first entered in the HubPages. And I agree with New Horizons, the natural habitat of wild salmon should be preserved by all of us... I also wish that you'll see my latest hub, it is also about salmon:-)

blackjava says:
2 years ago

Great Hub

I love salmon done up in a smoker, cooker.

I agree that we need to protect our wild salmon. However, I don't agree that we should stop salmon farming as an industry. The whole issue revolves around the farmed salmon escaping into the wild and spreading disease.

I saw a program on some of the methods they are trying to develope to contain the farmed fish. That is where the problem lies. When some one figures that out, there shouldn't be a problem.

I hope :)

JMHO

relache says:
2 years ago

Actually, JMHO, fish farming can be really unhealthy for the fish who are raised there. What would be best for everyone is sustainable usage of our natural oceanic resources, not just manipulating supplies for culinary fashions.