You can hardly mess this up: the easiest (and most beautiful) salmon from the oven

We can’t say it often enough: the oven is one of your very best friends in the kitchen. Of course, there are things you should never do with your oven and you need to know how to keep your oven clean in the best way, but once you and it have become the best of friends, it will go above and beyond for you…

Because how easy is it to put an impressive and incredibly delicious large piece of salmon on the table, for which the oven has basically done all the work? A dish you can hardly mess up, because you cook it at a low temperature too, so it doesn’t matter at all if it stays in that dependable oven for a few minutes ‘too long’? Well, this easy:

How to make virtually foolproof salmon from the oven

• Preheat the oven to 120° C.
• Pour the 60 ml olive oil into an oven dish that is just large enough for the salmon. You can put baking paper in the dish first, but you don’t have to.
• If you bought your salmon fillet with the skin on, place it skin-side down in the oil.
• Season generously with salt and pepper.
• Finely chop the shallot, fresh herbs, garlic and nuts if using, and the lemon zest in a food processor or with the chopping attachment of a hand blender.
• Stir the 2 tbsp olive oil into this.
• Spread the herb mixture over the salmon.
• Place the salmon in the oven and cook for about 25 minutes. (The precise cooking time depends on how thick the salmon is).
• Check after about 25 minutes: insert a fork into the thickest part and gently move it back and forth. If the fish easily falls apart into flakes, it is done.
• If it still feels a little ‘thick’ and the fork doesn’t come out easily, it needs a little more time. Check again after 5 minutes.
• Serve in the dish or carefully transfer the salmon with a wide spatula to a board for cutting into pieces.
• Delicious with perfectly cooked rice or crusty bread, and a large salad with, for example, that delicious green goddess dressing.

Also read:

• How to make truly crispy oven fries
• This is how you thaw salmon
• Incredible: this wacky oven dish is a Swedish cult classic

Source: The Kitchn