Sockeye Salmon Recipe should be your weeknight thing! Sockeye Salmon is a rich flavored salmon that shines here with the lemon butter sauce.
Pat dry your sockeye salmon and feel free to remove the skin like I did, or keep it on if you like skin on salmon.
Season the salmon with garlic powder, salt and pepper or both sides.
Melt the garlic butter or regular butter in a skillet.
Sear the salmon on both sides until golden and the salmon forms a crust.
remove the salmon from the skillet and use the same skillet without washing to make the sauce.
Add in more butter to the skillet and flour. Whisk until smooth and thickened, at that point add in the lemon juice, thyme, zest and thin it out with stock or water to the desired consistency.
Place the salmon back into the skillet and add in lemon slices. The salmon should simmer in the sauce for just 2 minutes and it's ready.
Serve the salmon on a plate with extra lemon butter sauce.
Enjoy!!
This is the most asked question I get. Sockeye salmon is almost always wild-caught, whereas Atlantic salmon is generally farmed salmon.
With sockeye salmon, you will get a very deep red color given from its diet and sockeye salmon has very high levels of omega 3 fatty acids which are very good for your health.
Generally, sockeye salmon is of better quality and tastes better with a firmer texture than farmed Atlantic salmon. If you want to make sure you eat only wild caught salmon King salmon is another option.
Sockeye salmon is more expensive because it has to be wild caught rather than farmed. They also tend to be smaller. This increases its price on the market.
Yes absolutely. This salmon is very easily grilled and can taste very nice cooked this way. to keep your salmon moist you may want to cover your salmon with foil. If you prefer to grill your salmon with this recipe you can do that and make the sauce separately to pour-over.
Yes, baking the salmon fillet is another way to can easily cook salmon. If you prefer this method to you can adapt this recipe to it also. You could even bake your salmon in the lemon butter sauce to keep it lovely and moist and let the salmon really absorb the lemon butter sauce flavors.