Salmon with Lemon Butter Sauce Recipe

A white plate featuring a cooked salmon fillet topped with a creamy herb sauce, accompanied by a serving of steamed green beans. The dish is presented on a wooden surface.
4 from 73 votes

Pan seared salmon with lemon butter sauce – this recipe is so rich and delicious. The sauce is creamy and full of flavor. This recipe not recommended when you are on a diet.

A white plate featuring a cooked salmon fillet topped with a creamy herb sauce, accompanied by a serving of steamed green beans. The dish is presented on a wooden surface.

Salmon with Lemon Butter Sauce Recipe

4 from 73 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
WORK TIME 20 minutes
DIFFICULTY Medium
Cuisine European
Servings 4 yields

Ingredients
 

  • 2-4 salmon fillets 180g per fillet
  • â…“ cup 75g butter
  • 2 tablespoons fresh Lemon juice
  • Lemon zest
  • â…” cup 160ml White wine – optional /or chicken broth
  • ½ cup 120ml Heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
  • Salt
  • Black pepper

Instructions
 

  • DIRECTIONS
    1. Remove the skin from salmon fillets. Season with salt and pepper.
    2. Melt butter over medium-low heat. Fry the salmon on both sides until golden, about 3-4 minutes from each side.
    3. Add to the pan white wine, lemon juice, lemon zest and heavy cream. Cook the salmon in the sauce for about 3 minutes and remove from the pan.
    4. Season the sauce with salt and pepper. Add chopped parsley and stir. Reduce sauce by half until thick.
    5. Serve the salmon and pour the sauce over the salmon.
    Notes:
    • In the video you can see me cooking only 2 salmon pieces, but this recipe serves 4. You can cook 4 pieces once in a large pan or in two batches, then divide the too.
    • Serve the sauce immediately.

Video

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Nutrition information is automatically generated and thus we can not guarantee it is 100% accurate.

14 Comments

  1. Bob Calvert says:

    How do you keep the Salmon hot while you are finishing the sauce to pour over it ??

    February 24, 2019
    1. Hal Smith says:

      Made this last night. Remove breasts to warm dish (or pan), cover with aluminum foil. I added the breasts back to the sauce to bring them back to warm.
      AND is DEEELICIOUS!!!

      June 10, 2020
      1. Salmon have breasts huh? Lol

        November 18, 2020
    2. Rick Bobick says:

      Pre-heat your oven to 225 F. Once you plate the salmon put the plate with salmon in the oven to keep warm Close the oven door and turn off the oven. It will keep warm until you remove the plate. Careful, it will be hot

      March 11, 2023
  2. Stephanie Julia says:

    Made this tonight and it was SO GOOD. Everyone basically licked their plates, it was that good. The sauce is amazing and the fish was perfect.

    January 21, 2020
  3. zachary caulkins says:

    Tried this recipe and it was easy and very tasty.

    January 24, 2020
    1. The Cooking Foodie says:

      Glad you liked it 🙂

      June 10, 2020
  4. What type of parsley do you recommend? Curly? Flat leaf? Cilantro? Thank you so much!

    January 7, 2021
  5. This was delicious, love how quickly it came together. Used half and half and plant base butter. Added some minced garlic

    October 23, 2021
  6. This was delicious, love how quickly it came together. Used half and half and plant base butter. Added some minced garlic

    October 23, 2021
  7. This was delicious, love how quickly it came together. Used half and half and plant base butter. Added some minced garlic

    October 23, 2021
  8. This was delicious, love how quickly it came together. Used half and half and plant base butter. Added some minced garlic

    October 23, 2021
    1. cooking foodie is great. cooking foodie is great.

      February 7, 2023
  9. Overall I thought mine turned out pretty good. It’s very buttery, so if you’re not into butter, then you can pass on this. I think I had a little too much lemon but it turned out to have a good balance of taste at the end. The wine added great flavor. Good addition to my repertoire, I have to do this a few more times to dial it in and elevate my rendition.

    April 21, 2022
4 from 73 votes (73 ratings without comment)

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