Simple Baked Salmon Recipes

Salmon has a distinct flavor. It is a flavor that foodies treat with such high regard, adding it to a common dish will ramp up its overall flavor. Adding salmon to almost any dish puts the dish a notch higher but one method of cooking salmon that brings out its distinct flavor is by baking it. This is why there are numerous baked salmon recipes that you can find in cookbooks or on the internet.

The wide variety of baked salmon recipes allows you to choose one to your liking. Fortunately most baked salmon recipes are relatively easy to do. You just get your ingredients together, mix it up, pour it over your salmon slab then shove it in the oven. 

But keep in mind that the success of the dish relies heavily on how it is cooked, meaning the temperature of the oven and how long it is cooked. Bake it too long and you come up with a dried up piece of fish that’s not even salad worthy, bake it too short and you undercook the fish. 

Undercooking it though is better because you can always pop it back in the oven. The following is a baked salmon recipe that is easy and simple to do, try it out and see for yourself. If the salmon is baked well, you can amaze the entire family.

Oven Baked Salmon in Lemon and Basil

Items:
•2 cloves of minced garlic
•6 tablespoons light olive oil
•A teaspoon full of dried basil
•One teaspoon of salt
•1 teaspoon of the finest black pepper
•1 tablespoon lemon juice
•A tablespoon of freshly chopped parsley
•2 (6 ounce) fillets salmon

In a medium glass bowl, prepare marinade by mixing garlic, light olive oil, basil, salt, pepper, lemon juice and parsley.  Give it a good mix so the oil combines with the other ingredients.  Fix your fillets in a well sized baking dish and pour the marinade over the fillets.  Marinate for an hour.

Preheat your oven to 345 degrees F or 190 degrees C.

Put the salmon in aluminum foil and seal. Put the foil on a baking tray and bake for 35-40 minutes. Serve immediately.