lemon butter salmon

Original Blog post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2016/03/lemon-butter-salmon.html

Ingredients

½ stick salted Butter (semi-soft)

¼ cup Onion finely chopped

2 tablespoon Lemon zest

4 Salmon filet

2-3 pinches of Salt per filet

2 pinches black pepper per filet

1 teaspoon oil

½ cup White wine

1 squeeze of lemon juice

½ teaspoon Sugar

Instructions

• Mix together with a fork butter, onions and lemon zest. Mush it all together so the onion and lemon flavors absorb into the butter. Set aside in the refrigerator covered for 10 minutes
• Season the salmon filet with salt and black pepper
• In a hot non-stick pan add oil and 2 table spoons of the lemon butter
• Place salmon in the pot and cook until seared on each side. (See greedy tips) then remove from heat
• In a sauce pan or the same pot (if there are not burnt remains) add the remaining 2 tablespoons butter sauté just until the butter has melted then add the wine, a quick squeeze of lemon juice and the sugar.
• Let the sauce reduce into a thick glaze
• Once it’s reduced remove from the heat and place the salmon back in the pot and sauce them
• Serve

Greedy tips:

• My salmon filets were very thin, so I cooked mine less than a minute preside and allowed the residual heat to cook the rest. Generally if your salmon is thick you can do 2-3 minutes per side Make sure the pan is very hot so it gets a nice crispy sear on the outside.