Seared Salmon with lemon-garlic butter

Happy FEAST Friday beautiful! As the sun starts to rise earlier every morning and I see all sorts of signs in our garden that summer is here I can't help but get excited about more "summery-meals" for our coming FEAST Friday's. I'm looking forward to all sorts of salads, more fresh ingredients. All light and full of flavour!

I absolutely love fish! (I'm sure you can tell as we've had recipes for Sardine Corquettes and a delicious Snoek on the Braai already!)

This week hubby announced that he wants to prepare dinner for me. On the Menu: Seared Salmon Steaks with a lemon-garlic butter sauce. What a keeper, I know!! =) This meal is a winner on a hot summers evening. It is fresh and perfectly served with a side of veggies or even with a fresh salad. (You can also try it with the grainy salad from our FEAST Recipe guide - yummy!!!)

Ingredients

2 x 150 g Salmon Steaks

15 ml Salted Butter

15 ml Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice

1 Garlic Clove, chopped finely

5 ml Parsley, finely chopped

Salt & Pepper to taste

2 Cups Roasted Broccoli as side dish

Method

1. Remove your Salmon steaks from the fridge 15 minutes before you plan to prepare it - Salmon is best seared when it is room temperature

2. Put you Broccoli in the oven to roast while you are busy with the salmon

3. Dry the fillets with a paper towel and season with salt & pepper

4. Heat your pan over a medium heat for 5 minutes until very hot

5. Add the butter, let it melt and tilt the pan so that a thin layer of butter covers the whole pan. Let it heat for 3 minutes and then add the lemon juice, garlic and parsley

6. Place the Salmon Steaks skin side down into the very hot pan

7. Cook for about 2 minutes or until the pink flesh starts to turn white

8. Flip you fillet and sear the other side for about 1 minute (timing depends on the thickness of your fillet)

9. Remove the salmon from the pan and let it rest for about 3 minutes before you serve it with the roasted Broccoli and a fresh slice of lemon

Things to remember when you cook Salmon Steaks:

- Don't start with cold fillets! You will get a nice and crispy skin when you let your fillets get to room temperature before you cook them.

- Pat your fillets dry with kitchen towels before you put then into the pan.

- Use a really hot pan! Like in really really hot...

- Always start with the fillets skin side down

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