Easy, light, and unbelievably delicious baked salmon and asparagus dish. Juicy, flaky salmon is baked with asparagus in a sun-dried tomato lemon sauce. The whole dish takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.
EASY BAKED SALMON
We woke up to the coldest temperature that I’ve seen in Florida during the day. It was 30 degrees this morning…yikes. Our poor A/C unit outside is working so hard, trying to keep us warm, that it’s completely frozen around the sides. It looks like an igloo, I can scrape it and make snow balls. (That could actually be fun!)
I never thought that I wouldn’t want to go outside the winter, in Florida. Usually, it’s the heat that we try to avoid and stay inside a nicely air-conditioned home. Winter and early spring months are our favorite and we are out all the time enjoying the mild, beautiful, no humidity air. It’s been a little too mild this week.
So we are having a little hibernation period until the temperature warms up a bit next week. The forecast is showing 60s next week already and I can’t wait to take the kiddos out. Little man has a new scooter that he was really enjoying and even wants to go fishing.
I never thought that my son would be begging to go fishing. My husband has never been fishing before and I haven’t gone fishing since I was a little girl. My grandfather used to go fishing all the time and I remember tagging along for a boat ride.
Little man saw some kids fishing at the playground by the river and ever since then, he’s been asking to go. He’s been fascinated by it so grandma got him a set of fishing poles for Christmas. We didn’t’ expect this cold weather to hit so he’s been very impatiently waiting to go fishing when it warms up.
I wish we lived near the lakes and river where there is salmon. I would definitely go fishing for salmon every day. Wouldn’t it be great to eat fresh salmon every day? It would be heavenly for me because it’s my favorite fish to eat.
We’ve been talking about fishing so much lately, I had a craving for salmon for two weeks. A few days ago, I ran out and got myself some beautiful fresh salmon and made this delicious lemon and sun-dried tomato baked salmon. This dish is super easy and very flavorful. I ate both salmon pieces in one sitting, it was too good.
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Sun Dried Tomato Lemon Baked Salmon and Asparagus
Ingredients
- 1 lb salmon fillets skin on
- 10 oz asparagus
- Zest from 1 lemon
- Juice from 1/2 lemon
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 3 Tbsp dry white wine
- 3 oz diced sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil just tomatoes
- 1 tsp dry crushed basil
- 4 large garlic cloves
- Salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. I like to create a border with parchment paper edges so the sauce and juices stay inside.
- Rub salmon skin with some oil and place salmon fillets on the parchment paper, skin down.
- Season salmon with a little salt and pepper.
- Cut the white edges of the asparagus off and cut the stalks in half, to create shorter pieces.
- Add asparagus to the baking sheet, around salmon. Try to place asparagus in one layer so it bakes evenly.
- In a small bowl, combine lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil, wine, sun-dried tomatoes, pressed garlic, dry basil, salt, and pepper. Whisk well and spoon the sauce mixture over salmon and asparagus.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes, depending on the thickness of salmon fillets.
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Jane |OilDiffuserZone| says
What yummy, I adore it!
Photos are very beautiful.
lyuba says
Thank you so much, Jane!
Lisa Huff says
Love it, looks great!
lyuba says
Thank you, Lisa!!
Samantha Paul says
Hey Lyuba…! i love salmon and your dish looks sooooo yummy and delicious with most beautiful photography. i can’t wait make this recipe….Thanks for sharing and keep shared your amazing recipes…!
lyuba says
Thank you for the sweet words, Samantha! 🙂
Donna says
Could you tell me what lemon zest is? This looks yummy. Also, how do I make or get the sun dried tomatoes? Thank you so much for sharing your recipe.
lyuba says
Hi Donna!
Yes, lemon zest of the very outer part yellow part of the lemon, without the white rind. So you can use a zester to scrape off the very outer, yellow part of the lemon.
I hope you will make it and enjoy it!
Alice says
Hello, long time lurker, first time commenter – would love to give this recipe a go. I don’t cook with alcohol so what would you suggest as a good sub for the wine? Would it change much of the taste if removed from recipe? Thank you.
lyuba says
Hahaha, hi Alice and I’m so sorry for late response!
You can always use cooking wine, it doesn’t contain wine. You can also add some chicken or veggie stock. You may even be able to find seafood stock you can use.
I hope you enjoy it and keep lurking!
DONNA MALARKEY says
I want to make this Sun Dried Salmon dish, but I do not like Salmon with the skin on…..can this be made without the skin…..with a filet of Salmon? It looks so yummy!!
lyuba says
Hi Donna,
You can absolutely make this without the skin! It will even cook a bit faster without the skin 🙂
I hope you enjoy it!
Laurie says
The presentation was beautiful! I used all the ingredients in the recipe but I did steam the asparagus for 10 minutes first and baked the salmon and asparagus for 12 minutes.
LyubaB says
Hi Laurie,
I am so glad you liked it! 🙂