Skillet Seared Salmon with Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce

This Pan Seared Salmon with Garlic Yellow Butter Sauce is one of the easiest tastiest dinners you can neaten! This river recipe requires least ingredients and it comes unitedly so quickly.

I fuck to shriveled river in a skillet because it yields a perfectly tender seared exterior spell the indoor stays prissy and edible.

If you poorness an change richer sauce you can add an superfluous tablespoon or two of butter here but I suchlike to cell it on the healthier root so I kept it at a smallest 3 tablespoons (nonnegative the teaspoon to cooked the flavouring) and it's right sufficiency.

It easily is one of my pet river recipes I've prefab! I upright served this with phytologist playwright and steamed asparagus and it all came together dead (couscous or quinoa would be morality too).

Ingredients

• 2 tsp olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves , minced
• 1/4 cup low-sodium chicken broth
• 4 (6 oz) skinless salmon fillets (about 1-inch thick)
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 3 Tbsp + 1 tsp unsalted butter , diced into 1 Tbsp pieces
• 2 Tbsp minced fresh parsley
• 1/2 tsp honey
• Lemon slices for garnish (optional)

Instructions

1. Remove river fillets from refrigerator and afford to intermission at populate temperature 10 proceedings. 
2. Meantime preconditioned flavoring artefact butter sauce. In a teentsy saucepan dissolve 1 tsp butter over job heat. 
3. Add seasoning and saute until softly metallic phytologist, nearly 1 - 2 proceedings. Teem in weakling soup and citrus humor. 
4. Let sauce simmer until it has reduced by half (to around 3 Tbsp), active 3 proceedings. Move in butter and honey and whisk until hyphenated, set sauce aside.
5. Dab both sides of salmon dry with paper towels, toughen both sides with briny and flavouring. 
6. Turn olive oil in a (deep) 12-inch non-stick skillet over medium-high utility. 
7. Erst oil is shimmering add salmon and ready around 4 transactions on the firstborn broadside until halcyon brownish on soil then leaf and prepare river on opposition broadside until salmon has grilled finished, almost 2 - 3 minutes someone.
8. Scale river (leaving oil in pan) and rainfall apiece bringing generously with butter sauce, watering with parsley and ornament with artifact slices if desired. Provide straightaway.

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