Easy Baked Salmon with Garlic Lime Butter Sauce

If you want an easy basic recipe for how to bake salmon, this is the right place! This easy baked salmon is made even more special by the addition of garlic, lime slices, and butter.

📝 Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lb salmon fillet
• 1 tablespoon butter (melted)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 lime (thinly sliced)
• 3 garlic cloves (minced)
• 4 tablespoons butter (sliced)
• 1/3 cup fresh parsley (chopped)
• 1/2 lime (optional)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. 2To a medium-size casserole dish, add 1 tablespoon of melted butter and spread on the bottom. Add salmon fillet skin side down to the casserole dish. Sprinkle with salt on top.
3. 3Top salmon with minced garlic. Add lime slices all around.
4. 4Top with sliced butter, unmelted.
5. 5Bake uncovered for about 20 minutes or longer (depends on your oven), or until the salmon is cooked through.
6. 6Remove from the oven.
7. 7Remove lime slices from the casserole dish.
8. 8--- Optional serving suggestions: ---
9. 9Serve the salmon over jasmine rice. Pour butter sauce over salmon and rice.
10. 10Sprinkle with chopped fresh parsley. Sprinkle with extra lime juice (from the remaining half of lime), if desired.