I’ve been experimenting with seafood dishes lately, because sometimes I feel like I’m going to turn into a chicken as much as I eat. Just check out my index on the blog and you’ll see a million wonderful chicken dishes, I’m always trying to come up with some new way to prepare it. But I don’t have many go-to recipes for seafood. The first thing I’ve learned is that using a meat thermometer will help. For salmon, 145º is my preference. I love salmon so that’s what I’ve been experimenting with lately. I came up with a great method for cooking it by rubbing the salmon with a little butter first then topping it with panko. The texture is great but I thought it needed more herbs to boost the flavor.
When I heard about Epicurean’s seasoned butters, I was a little skeptical as to whether it would be worth it to purchase already seasoned butter. How hard is it to add my own seasonings to butter. However, I love butter and was willing to try theirs out. I decided to try the Tuscan Herb butter to rub on the salmon and add to the panko mixture.
This was just what my salmon recipe needed. It transformed this dish from a good dish to a fabulous one. The herbed butter had just the right proportion of butter to herbs so that the salmon itself was infused with flavor. The butter that I added to the panko along with some fresh basil and lemon zest was just the right combination.
I tried to find this at Whole Foods and Harris Teeter in Greensboro but they don’t carry it yet. Hopefully you can find it in your area. Let me tell you, this salmon is so awesome, that it’s worth ordering the butter on line just to use for this recipe. You can keep it in the freezer until you need it or use it on corn on the cob. I love that this is a boutique butter company.
Salmon with Herbed Butter
Baked salmon with herbed butter and panko is crispy on the outside but juicy on the inside. Epicurean Butter makes this even simpler for a quick and easy week night dinner that will take less then 10 minutes to prep. This is a sponsored post but as always, all opinions are my own.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
Ingredients
- 1 lbs salmon fillets
- 3 tablespoons tuscan herbed butter, softened and divided
- ⅓ cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1–2 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped
- 1 lemon lemon zest
- salt and pepper
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in hal
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 425º. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Place salmon on the prepared baking sheet and coat with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the herbed butter. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
3. In a small bowl, combine panko, fresh basil, lemon zest and salt and pepper. Melt 1 1/2 tablespoon of herbed butter and add to the panko mixture, stirring to combine. Pat panko mixture on top of buttered salmon. Place tomatoes around the salmon and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
4. Bake for about 20 minutes or until meat thermometer registers 145º and top is golden brown.
Oh my goodness! As usual, you continually open my mind to new ideas. I had some compound butter and my daughter tagged me on this recipe! Fantastic! Ordering the Epicurean Butter tomorrow. So easy and delicious! (And very fast in the smart oven!)