Baked Salmon with Lemon Caper Butter

Baked Salmon with Lemon Caper Butter is an easy family dinner! Salmon baked to perfection and topped with decadent lemon caper butter.

Course Main Dishes

Cuisine American

Keyword caper butter, dinner, Food, lemon, Recipe, salmon

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Servings Servings

Calories 400kcal

Ingredients

Ingredients:

1 1/2 pounds salmon cut into 4 (5 ounce) fillets
kosher salt and pepper
8 lemon slices
non-stick spray

Lemon Caper Butter

6 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 cloves garlic minced
4 tablespoons capers drained and rinsed
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 tablespoons lemon juice
kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with non-stick spray. Remove pinbones from salmon, if desired. If not cut into fillets, cut salmon into 5 ounce fillets.
Place salmon fillets on the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle fillets with kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper. Place 2 lemon slices on top of each fillet. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove and tent with aluminum foil for 10 more minutes. Fish will continue to cook during this time. It will flake easily when done.
While salmon is cooking, in a small sauce pan, melt butter over medium heat. Once butter has melted add garlic, capers, lemon zest and lemon juice. Cook for 2 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Remove lemon slices and discard. Gently slide a turner or serving spatula between the skin and the flesh of the fillet to remove the skin, it should separate very easily. Transfer fillet to a serving platter and spoon lemon caper butter over the top. Serve.

Notes

This recipe has been doubled from the previously published recipe to feed four instead of two. Previous ingredient amounts were as follows (instructions are exactly the same)

2 (5 ounce) 5 ounce salmon filets

salt and pepper

4 lemon slices

non-stick spray

3 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 cloves garlic

2 tablespoons capers

1/2 teaspoon lemon zest

1 tablespoon lemon juice

Nutrition information for estimation purposes only.

Nutrition