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If you’re looking for a healthy, yummy, and quick weekday recipe to wow your family or guests, keep reading to learn about one of my favorite go-to recipes – “Salmon en Papillote”, or translated – “Salmon in Paper”. Don’t let the french title of this recipe intimidate you! In less than 30 minutes, you can prep and cook a delicious meal. My recipe and video instructions are below:
Steamed Salmon en Papillote
Ingredients
- 2 wild caught salmon filets
- 1 small zucchini, cut in half & thinly sliced
- 1 small squash, cut in half & thinly sliced
- 2 tsp fresh dill weed
- 1 clove of garlic, shaved or minced
- 1 shallot or small sweet onion, thinly sliced
- 2 lemons, one halved, the other thinly sliced
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 4 tsp olive oil
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Parchment Paper
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375. Take a piece of parchment paper and fold it in half, lay flat.
- On one side of the crease, take half of your measured ingredients and layer your chopped zucchini, squash, shallots, dill weed, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Top off with a fresh squeeze of half a lemon an top with olive oil for steaming.
- Place your salmon filet on top, and season with salt and pepper. Place garlic shavings on top and provide another squeeze of fresh lemon.
- Drizzle some olive oil on you filet and place lemon slices on top to complete the dish prior to baking.
- To close, bring the other half of the parchment fold on top of the fish, and fold the edges into tight pleats to ensure none of the oil escapes during the baking process. Once complete, the paper packet will look like a half moon.
- Place your dish in the oven and bake between 10 – 15 minutes until you reach the desired temperature for your fish. In the video below, I cooked mine for 14 minutes. Once your dish is done cooking, remove from the oven, cut open, and serve.
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Video Instructions:
As someone who loves salmon, this is a dish I can’t wait to make. Love how you have shown how straight forward this is via the video. It presents really well and I’m hungry now just looking at it! I know my partner will love it just as much when I give this a go later in the week.
Wow, it looks delicious! My husband loves salmon. I’ll add it to our meal plan for next week, I’m sure he’ll be over the moon 😊
MmmMMMM. Nothing beats a good piece of salmon. We actually have some frozen salmon, and I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with it.
lovely recipe, my husband loves salmon and we are both trying to eat more healthy at the moment so this would be the perfect dinner
I have never heard before of salmon en Papillote before. But it does look yummy! And anything w/ salmon and zucchini sounds fabulous. Thanks for sharing.
I love salmon. Will try this definitely.
This looks absolutely delicious. I need more fish in my diet.
Anything cooked a la Papillote is pure art! The taste of all the flavors you get at the end makes this one of my favorite cooking techniques. Also is so easy and fast!
I’m craving for Steamed Salmon en Papillote right now. It looks so delicious! Yum!!!
Salmon is so lush, especially smoked, I’m definitely going to pop out and get some tomorrow to try this
this looks amazing! i def need to test this out! saving now!
Looks like a nice recipe, but would love vegan or vegetarian recipes too.
This Salmon recipe is on point! We just made it tonight and the family ate it all. We made ours with potatos and carrots. Thank you!
We love salmon and even sometimes it is expensive, it doesn’t matter! We will try your recipe.
Smoked Salmon is one of my favorites. Will try out this steamed version. Looks yummy too. Thanks for sharing.