Simple roasted salmon

Name: Simple roasted salmon
Ingredients: 1 lemon, halved; 500 g fillet of salmon, skin on; butter; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Solo

By Signe Johansen

Published 2018

About

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, we Scandis like to treat our seafood with as little fuss and embellishment as possible – this is one such example. A good piece of roasted salmon can then be spun into any number of dishes.

Ingredients

500 g fillet of salmon, skin on
butter
1 lemon, halved
sea salt

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4 and line a roasting dish with baking parchment.

Place the salmon in the roasting dish skin-side down and season it generously with salt and pepper, then dot about 6 pats of butter over the top (or melt the butter and brush it over the fish i