This recipe is sponsored by our friends over at Challenge Butter. We’re using their high-quality butter to make today’s easy sheet pan salmon dinner! One sheet pan dinners are what make weeknight dinners possible around here most nights! You know, the kind of dinner where you get two sides and a protein cooking up and coming out of the oven at the same time. So you’re not doing backflips to get sides out of the oven while the stove is cooking up the protein. The whole family can sit down at the same time with a plateful of potatoes, asparagus, and garlic butter salmon. Can we also take a second to appreciate the blessings of a one-sheet pan dinner and how often it means fewer dishes to clean afterward? Music to my ears. We’re talking about delicious salmon brightened up with compound butter made with fresh lemon zest and pressed garlic, perfectly al-dente asparagus, and crinkly garlic roasted potatoes. This is the stuff that dinner dreams are made of!
Ingredients for Sheet Pan Garlic Butter Salmon:
Salted Challenge Butter: I love using Challenge Butter for this recipe because it is made the old-fashioned way! Churned fresh daily from milk from happy cows at their local family-owned dairies. It’s made from fresh sweet cream and salt, and doesn’t contain added hormones, additives, or fillers. I absolutely love that!Baby Potatoes: I like to use the teeny tiny potatoes for this recipe. If you can’t find those, feel free to use larger potatoes, but I suggest dicing them down into ¾ inch pieces so that they all roast up in the same amount of time.Fresh Garlic: garlic is added to the potatoes to give them a delicious roasted flavor and the compound butter for the salmon and asparagus.Seasonings: I’m using salt and pepper, and then just a dash of dried thyme and red pepper flakes to the butter for the salmon and asparagus.Fresh Lemons: we’ll use the zest and juice of the lemon to help flavor the butter we’ll use on the salmon and the asparagus. Lemons add the most delicious citrusy flavor to fish recipes.Salmon Filets: I usually buy precut filets from the grocery store. You can always ask the fishmonger to cut them for you. For this recipe, you can keep the skin on or off; totally your call!Fresh Asparagus: You’ll need about 1 ½ bunch of asparagus. Just snap off the woody ends before adding them to the sheet pan.
How to make a one-sheet pan garlic butter salmon dinner:
Best Tips for homemade sheet pan garlic butter salmon:
A big thank you to our friends at Challenge Butter for sponsoring this post! We love working with companies that make good, wholesome ingredients!
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Salmon: It’s essential to remove the salmon fillets from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes prior to cooking. Cooking times may vary if you do not bring the salmon to temperature first.
