Description
The perfectly cooked seared salmon with skin! This salmon is cooked on the stovetop and then finished in the oven! Foolproof!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 filet salmon, skin on (thawed if purchased frozen)
- 1–2 tablespoons olive oil
- Freshly ground black better
- Salt
- I especially like pre-mixed fancy salt with herbs since it gives it more flavor but doesn’t require more of my time.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425*.
- Season salmon with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Be liberal! You can also sprinkle a little sugar on top to help it caramelize.
- Heat an oven-safe skillet over medium-high. Add olive oil and once it’s warm (easily swirls in the pan), place your salmon face down (skin-side up) in the pan. Cook for 3-5 minutes until well seared. Carefully flip and cook for 2 more minutes.
- Move the salmon — in the skillet you cooked it in! — into the pre-heated oven (skin side still down). Cook for 5-7 minutes, until internal temperature reaches 145*.
- If desired, carefully remove the skin from the salmon before serving. It should peel off very easily if you lift an edge with a knife.
Notes
- Sometimes I turn on my broiler to help it preheat faster if I’m making this at lunch – maybe it’s in my head but I think it works!
- If your salmon isn’t thawed, you can microwave it for 30 seconds to defrost it! Not as ideal as letting it thaw in the fridge, but I do it all the time. 🙂
- You can cook the fish to a lower internal temperature if you like it a little more rare, like I do. I usually take it out around 130*. I LOVE this thermometer for cooking fish (and all meat).
- You can easily double or quadruple this depending on how many people you’re serving.
- If you don’t have a pepper grinder, GET ONE. Freshly ground pepper is a game changer compared to pre-ground pepper. It will last you forever if you get a nice one and you just refill it with peppercorns as needed