Perfect baked salmon recipe with cilantro and garlic oil. This is a simple and delicious dish, a wonderful lunch or dinner meal.
Baked Salmon with Cilantro-Garlic Oil
Ingredients
- 4 6 oz salmon fillets
- 2 cups fresh cilantro stems removed
- ½ cup olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- 2 garlic cloves
- Juice of ½ lime
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400° F.
- In a large baking dish place the salmon fillets. Season each fillet with salt and pepper.
- In a food processor mix the cilantro, oil, garlic, lime, salt and pepper. Pour half of the mixture on top of the salmon fillets.
- Place the baking dish in the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the salmon is cooked through. Drizzle the fish with the rest of the sauce and serve.
Notes
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The combined simplicity and flavor are what make this baked salmon dish terrific. I think that we all need some easy, but delicious recipes that we can prepare in a short time and with little planning, for a weeknight dinner party, without sacrificing taste.
I love to cook salmon because just by adding olive oil, salt and pepper, it tastes great and adding just a couple of more ingredients makes for a great tasting, fancier dish. Of course this recipe would work beautifully with parsley instead of cilantro, in case you are one of those people who hate cilantro and think it tastes like soap 🙂 I happen to love the taste of cilantro and I don’t think that you will find many Colombians that don’t like it as we use cilantro in almost all of our traditional dishes. My mom is a huge fan of cilantro and uses it as a garnish in every soup she makes. Enjoy!
More delicious and easy salmon recipes you may want to try:
DIMAHA
The Baked Salmon With Cilantro-garlic was a success! My family absolutely loved the flavor! It was also very easy to make. Thank you, Erica! I cannot be more grateful for your website.
Amparo Lopez
Por qué si es una página colombiana tiene que estar en inglés no veo la razón no sale en español ni tampoco hay opciones para colocarla en español no somos gringos somos colombianos
Erica Dinho
Hola Amparo, el blog fué creado para mostrar nuestra comida al mundo. Yo vivo en USA y quiero compartir con personas de otros paises mis recetas. Pero el blog está en español aquí: https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/es/
David Brenner
Hi,
This recipe looks great, but it seems as though the instructions are incomplete. It says to put half of the sauce mixture on the fish, but then it never explains what to do with the other half.
Thanks,
David
Erica Dinho
Updated it.
Óscar
Espectacular receta. Salmón es mi pescado favorito. Ahh y cilantro y tostones complementan un receta súper deliciosa. Gracias.
Harold Burton
Second time I have tried this dish – absolutely delicious! Thanks ever so much for this!
Tena
I admit I am not fond of cilantro. I have some dill growing in the backyard, though. I think that will work well.