This rosemary roasted garlic salmon is simple, delicious and perfect for an easy family meal as well as impressive enough for a dinner party.
I am a huge fan of salmon but I have to admit that I don't cook it very often. Unfortunately I'm the only one in my family who really loves it. The rest of the family prefer to eat white fish and so that's what I tend to cook. The kids love pan-fried sea bass and I often cook it with this samphire or just a simple caper butter sauce. My husband is always happy with these recipes.
The Inspiration for this Rosemary Garlic Salmon
However, sometimes I decide to put myself first and that's exactly what happened recently when I saw this beautiful roasted fish recipe on Binky's Culinary Carnival. I was looking for one of Beth's recipes to make as I'd been assigned her blog in a food blogger recipe swap. This salmon just jumped out at me. It was all the things I love in a recipe: easy, healthy and it would be great to eat cold the next day. If there was any left.
I especially loved how the rosemary garlic paste is made with roasted garlic. As soon as I read the recipe I wanted to roast some garlic bulbs and so I did. I roasted a few bulbs whole and then kept them in the fridge for the next few days. Whenever I wanted an extra boost of garlic in a soup or stew I just squeezed out a couple of cloves. That's definitely something I'll continue to do. By the way, if you like salmon then do check out my steamed salmon with a ginger, garlic and chilli sauce.
Can you adapt this salmon recipe?
I adapted the recipe just a little. I had a jar of truffle and black peppercorn salt so decided to use some of that in the paste instead of plain salt. Of course, feel free to use ordinary sea salt instead of the salt I used. I added a squeeze of lemon before cooking too.
In the original recipe the salmon was grilled but I baked the salmon in the oven instead. As you can see, I used a 500g piece of salmon but you could easily adapt the recipe and use it for a whole side of salmon.
Can you serve this roasted garlic salmon cold?
The salmon smells amazing as it's cooking and it tasted just as good. I think it would make a great recipe for over the Christmas period as it's simple to prepare and easy to cook. It's also just as good cold so you could make it to serve as part of a cold buffet over the Christmas period.
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Recipe
Rosemary Roasted Garlic Salmon
Ingredients
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 3 cloves roasted garlic
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt I used Camargue sea salt with black pepper and truffle
- 500 g piece of salmon
- 1 lemon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Remove the leaves from the stalks of rosemary, chop them roughly.
- Put the rosemary, roasted garlic and sea salt into a pestle and mortar and pound to a paste.
- Put the salmon on a piece of lightly oiled aluminium foil on a baking tray. Make f ew slashes in the flesh of salmon. Spread the garlic and rosemary mixture into the salmon.
- Cut the lemon into quarters. Squeeze a quarter over the salmon before it goes in the oven. Save the rest to serve with the cooked salmon.
- Bake the salmon in the oven for 15 minutes.
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Alyssa
Delicious and easy recipe! I used two six-ounce salmon filets and the oven was set to 375° F. I also roasted some asparagus on the same pan at the same time. It took closer to 20 minutes to cook completely, but that may have just been my oven; it’s older than I am, LOL. One other thing: for my convenience, I used dried rosemary and raw jarred minced garlic, but it came out wonderful regardless. I imagine it’s even better with fresh ingredients. I also added just a bit of fresh ground black pepper. I will definitely be making this again!
Corina Blum
I'm so pleased you enjoyed this recipe Alyssa. Thanks for letting me know. I'm sure it was lovely with the asparagus roasted with it too.
Kim
Wow!!! Now I need to make that immediately!
Corina Blum
I hope you like it - do let me know!
Sheila
I can totally relate. I love salmon but my family has a different preference. Would love to try this recipe. In fact, I am excited since it looks so good. Thank you for sharing.
Corina
It's difficult when other family members don't like the same things, isn't it? There are quite a few ingredients I love that I hardly use because I know they won't be popular with everyone.
Agness of Run Agness Run
I love salmon but I know only a few good recipes for preparing it. Hence, your recipe comes just in time. Thanks to your post, I can now include more salmon into my diet, Corina! 😉
Corina
I hope you enjoy it! I need to eat more salmon too.
michele
I love recipes that require just a few simple ingredients yet pack a flavorful and delicious note! Pinned this to try!
Corina
I hope you like it! I love easy recipes too as it's hard to spend too long in the kitchen and have time to do everything else I want to do.
Julie
This looks like such a delicious dinner - and that truffle salt sounds divine! My toddler would be allll over this.
Corina
It's always good when the little ones like a recipe too, isn't it? My three year old really liked this too.
Kirsty Hijacked By Twins
I love salmon so you had me straight away with this dish! Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Corina
So pleased you like it Kirsty x
Karyl | Karyl's Kulinary Krusade
I'm such a huge salmon fan, but I'm like you...I don't make it very often. I really don't even have a good excuse though, cause I'm just cooking for me! This looks like a very simple and delicious recipe
Corina
It's a great recipe to make for one too as the leftovers taste great cold so you can make more than you need for one meal! I try to batch cook whenever I can even if it's on a small scale.
Renee Gardner
This salmon looks yummy! Lemon and salmon always work so well together - I'll have to try it with the rosemary too!
Corina
I rarely serve salmon without lemon on the side and I loved the garlic rosemary coating on this too!
Leslie
I love salmon and make it all the time, but I've never added rosemary before. I'm going to have to give this a try next time!
Corina
I hope you like it! Do let me know if you try it.
Midge @ Peachicks' Bakery
Gorgeous recipe & Gorgeous photos!! Love the look of this & definitely saving for later as we eat a lot of salmon in this house (well we do - hubby doesn't!) xxx
Corina
I hope you like it! And so pleased you like the photos too x
Jenna Urben
Oh yes!! I am so making this for dinner soon 🙂
Corina
I hope you like it! Do let me know.
Nicoletta @sugarlovespices
Unlike in your family, we all love salmon, here, and we cook it often. This is such a great recipe. Roasted garlic and rosemary add an amazing touch.
Corina
Thanks! I wish my family liked it more because I would happily eat salmon every week.
Brian
Completely agree, well said!
Corina
Thanks Brian!
Sarah Newman
Yum! That truffle salt sounds amazing, and such an interesting combo with the rosemary! I bet it's great flavor
Corina
I love it! Luckily salmon is a strong flavoured fish so it stands up to it really well.
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy
I am lucky...EVERYONE loves salmon here...including the grandkids. This is a wonderful way to cook it. Perfect for any night of the week, and great to serve to guests too.
Corina
Thanks Gloria! I am hoping that one day I can get everyone to eat salmon happily with me.
Analida Braeger
I just love the flavor of rosemary and this sounds so good! Thanks for sharing a great recipe!
Corina
Thanks Analida! Rosemary and garlic are such a good match and this is so easy too.
Eb Gargano | Easy Peasy Foodie
Oooh - this looks just my kind of recipe...in fact we make something very similar, though I've never thought to put the recipe on my blog! I always try to make extra so I can have some cold with salad the next day - YUM!! Eb x
Corina
That's exactly what I did for lunch the next day! I wasn't thinking of it as a cold recipe when I made it but I enjoyed it so much the next day I changed my mind. So pleased you like it x
Michelle Frank | Flipped-Out Food
I just love the simplicity of roasted salmon. This version with the herbs and lemons looks absolutely amazing. I am definitely pinning this for my next dinner party!
Corina
I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did!
Jacqui
Oh, that does look good. I love simple recipes like this. Let the ingredients do the work.
Corina
Exactly Jacqui!
Anna
Garlic and rosemary combo is such a classic, yet, it always adds such a great spin of flavours into any dish! Such an easy and quick recipe! Thanks for sharing!
Corina
Thanks Anna! I'm so pleased you like it.
Sarah
Yum! If you can ever find some king salmon (I know they sell it at costco), try feeding that to your family and see if they like it! My mom never ever liked salmon, but she LOVED king salmon! (It's buttery.) This looks yummy!
Corina
I will have to look out for some king salmon. I'm hoping the children will start to like salmon in the future and my husband will eat it although it's not his favourite fish. I'm so pleased you like this!
Petra
Sounds like a fantastic recipe! I make salmon at least once a week, normally in an oven with garlic and dill but never tried with rosemary before. I will give it a go next time, thanks for the idea!
Corina
I will have to try it with dill one day! For some reason it's one of those herbs that I just never think to buy.
Kate - gluten free alchemist
We are huge salmon eaters in this house.... It is such a healthy and easy meal. Love the flavours in yours Corina. It looks so yummy! x
Corina
Thanks Kate! I loved this too. x
Abby @ WinsteadWandering
With all the rich and indulgent recipes this time of year, this salmon looks like the perfect reprieve. I love the addition of roasted garlic!
Beth
I wish I had some of your sea salt with truffle! Yum! Thanks for sharing this post! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
We simply love wild-caught salmon. Sometimes it's hard to find or if we do it is super expensive. But I'm certainly saving this recipe for when we do find the salmon. The garlic in it must taste fantastic!!
Corina
The garlic was wonderful! I roasted a few cloves and then kept them in an airtight container to use over the next few days. I have to admit though that I love garlic so much I had to stop myself just eating it by itself!