Garlic Butter Salmon in Foil
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Easiest tin foil dinner! Simply bake right in your foil packet. Quick, easy, and effortless with seriously zero clean-up!!
You know I can never resist a good tin foil dinner.
Because really, at the end of the day, and literally, at the end of the night, no one wants to do a pile of dirty dishes.
And I’ve said this a million times before. Serve your dinner in the foil packet as is. There’s absolutely no shame in that. I promise.
Tools For This Recipe
Baking sheet
Garlic Butter Salmon in Foil: Frequently Asked Questions
Unsalted butter allows you to add as much salt (or as little) salt in your dish. It allows for more control and consistency.
You can replace unsalted butter with salted butter in a pinch, reducing the amount of salt indicated in the recipe, and adding to taste.
Absolutely! But because dried herbs are often more potent/concentrated than fresh herbs, you need less when using dry. The correct ratio is 1 tablespoon fresh herbs to 1 teaspoon dried herbs.
Garlic Butter Salmon in Foil
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon dried rosemary
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 pounds salmon
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with foil.
- In a small bowl, whisk together butter, brown sugar, lemon juice, garlic, oregano, thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper, to taste.
- Place salmon onto prepared baking sheet and fold up all 4 sides of the foil. Spoon the butter mixture over the salmon. Fold the sides of the foil over the salmon, covering completely and sealing the packet closed.
- Place into oven and bake until cooked through, about 15-20 minutes.
- Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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I made this recipe today with but one exception, I substituted honey for the brown sugar. The salmon came out absolutely delicious! Definitely a repeater for me for sure!
Can this be nade in advance and warmed up a few hours later
I have made this salmon recipe at least once a month for the past couple of years. It is so simple, fast, and delicious. All salmon dishes I order at a restaurant are compared to this one, and none ever measure up! I’ve got my salmon in the oven right now, and figured I’d finally post a review.
This was delicious. Easy! The brown sugar made it. Yum.
Great tasting salmon! Knocked a star off because it took me 27 minutes to cook, and I didn’t feel my fish was overly thick or anything.
I made this tonight for my husband, and he loved it, it is definitely a keeper, it’s one of our go-to recipes for sure. Turned out flakey and not overcooked! Thank you so much! (Followed the directions no tweaks, it was perfect!!!) A must-try!
Wonderful brown sugar buttery flavor. I used 12 oz Norwegian salmon tail and cut sauce in half. Used fresh thyme instead of dry. Cooked around 20 min. Did add a squeeze of fresh lemon on the fish after on my plate.
Very delicious I try this delicious salmon myself it’s waterie delightful
I was really excited to try this recipe. The flavor was good, but I think it could have been stronger. Just seemed like it wasn’t quite there…
-salmon was pretty dry.
Fantabulous. I really like salmon, so I think I can judge. It was really tasty, sweet but not too sweet, rich and well flavored and the perfect consistency. It was great the next day too! Maybe the best way I’ve had salmon at home.
Note: I did cook it a little bit over 20 minutes, because it was enclosed in the foil, then opened the packet and
broiled for about 2 minutes after it cooked through, for a crunchy top.
Hard to overcook in the oven and enclosed in foil, too.
It was a easy, fine dinner, but def not as amazing as a lot of the other recipes on this site
I’d say it needs the full 20min for cooking and I only used half the recipe. Foil packet did not cook salmon all the way after 15min. I took it out of the foil and cooked another 5 and it was perfect.
Didn’t like this.
Garlic didn’t cook through and was half raw..
Sugar in the sauce was odd leaving a weird taste in the mouth.
Had high hopes for this but neither myself nor my husband enjoyed it unfortunately!
Made this for 2 with 1 lb steel head trout – a salmon look alike with a similar milder flavor. Delicious. Followed recipe with all ingredients halved except for the lemon juice. Next time I’ll try dill in place of oregano.
loved it only thing I switch up is using honey instead of Brown Sugar great meal thanks
Tastes much better than expected
Excellent and then some!!! What I did was add some cayenne pepper ’cause of being from the South. People ask: frozen fish does work just as fine.
*Be advised most of the time I use filet trout in place of salmon, saving my salmon for another time. Family has had this many time. Had to up the quantity on herbs-your mileage may vary. This is one of my all time favorites.
Hey!! Just asking.. I know the foil is totally super for clean-up but would this work in an air fryer? I know one need be conservative with toppings when using one of those, but I got an air fryer for Christmas and fell in love with the thing!!
If not, that’s OK . As I usually do, I’ll make it this weekend following the directions completely. I know I’ll love it! And it’s all so healthy like everything you guys (and dogs) post so I won’t get fat any time soon!! (I go out running in the very early morning every day so I can burn off the worst calories you can dish up!! One military habit worth keeping!!!
-Kim
This was delicious and so very easy! We did have to cook it longer, 24 min, even though we had exactly the right amount of salmon.
Yea I had to cook mine longer too. But once I did everything was yummy.
I have little experience baking salmon & looked through several recipes before settling on this one. I’m so happy I did. It was amazing!!! My family said and I quote “restaurant quality.” I’ll be using this recipe again and again.
Next time I’ll leave out the brown sugar.