Garlic Bread Crusted Salmon

This Garlic Bread Crusted Salmon makes an easy, tasty and impressive centerpiece for your family table!

Salmon has become a bit of a staple at our house. In my unrelenting effort to reduce how much meat we eat, I’m trying to get us to one veggie day a week and one fish day.

Salmon tends to be the fish of choice because I know everyone will eat it. So when I see sides of salmon on offer at the supermarket, I always grab one.

Sometime I’ll cut it up into portions, but this time I decided to cook the whole thing. It would have been lovely to have served it on a platter on the table – but unfortunately we’re still without a table!

It should be delivered tomorrow, so I can’t wait to get everyone eating there again and saving dinners-on-laps for the occasional movie night treat.

I was thinking of doing some kind of crispy, herb topping for the salmon, but then I was reminded of the garlic bread spaghetti I made a while back. If you’ve haven’t seen the recipe, it involves putting a garlic baguette in the food processor and pulsing it until it turns to crumbs. Then crisping the crumbs in a pan and serving with spaghetti and chilli and parmesan. Simple perfection.

I went with the same approach for the salmon. Blended up the garlic bread (I added a little paprika for a richer colour) and topped the salmon that already been brushed with a little bit of olive oil.

I wanted a little oil on the salmon make sure the crumbs stick. No more oil is required, as there’s already butter in the garlic bread. You probably won’t need to season either – as the garlic bread already contains salt and garlic.

Oven cook until the salmon is just done and the breadcrumbs are crispy, then sprinkle with some lemon zest.

I served it with a roasted veg and cous cous and it was a total hit (I even saved some for a lunchtime salad the next day).

Hmmmm now I need to do some more recipes with this garlic bread topping!! I’m thinking lasagne soup, mac n’ cheese , Garlic Bread Spaghetti and maybe as a coating for mashed potato cakes!

The Garlic Bread Crusted Salmon Recipe:

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5 from 3 votes

Garlic Bread Crusted Salmon

By Nicky Corbishley

This Garlic Bread Crusted Salmon makes an easy and tasty centerpiece for your family table! The crispy coating ensures the salmon is beautifully moist!

Prep Time: 5 minutes mins

Cook Time: 30 minutes mins

Total Time: 35 minutes mins

Servings: 6 servings

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: British

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 kg (2.2 lbs) boneless side of salmon
• ▢ 2 tbsp olive oil
• ▢ 1 garlic baguette refrigerator temperature
• ▢ ½ tsp paprika
• ▢ small bunch parsley roughly chopped
• ▢ zest of one lemon

Instructions 

• Preheat the oven to 170C/325F (fan).
• Place the salmon, skin-side-down on a large bakng tray. Brush the oil on the salmon.
  1 kg (2.2 lbs) boneless side of salmon, 2 tbsp olive oil
• Place the garlic baguette in a food processor with the paprika. Pulse until it turns to breadcrumbs.
  1 garlic baguette, 1/2 tsp paprika
• Spoon the breadcrumb mixture over the salmon. Push onto the salmon slightly with your hands so the curmbs stick to the oil.
• Place in the oven, uncovered and bake for 25-30 mins - until the salmon is just cooked in the middle and the crust is golden brown.
• Take out of the oven and top with chopped parsley and lemon zest. Serve with roasted veg and cous cous or potato wedges if you like.
  small bunch parsley, zest of one lemon

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Notes

Nutritional Information is per serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 391kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 36g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 91mg | Sodium: 328mg | Potassium: 862mg | Fiber: 1g | Vitamin A: 160IU | Calcium: 53mg | Iron: 2.6mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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