Salmon is a noble fish and always a welcome guest on the table. It is delicious in any form. A win-win option - fried salmon in a pan. You can buy whole fish and chop it yourself or purchase steaks, which is much more convenient. Following are some recipes for fried salmon in a pan with a photo.
Simple recipe
It is designed for 4 servings. It will take quite a few ingredients.
What do you need:
- four steaks;
- half a lemon (juice);
- refined vegetable oil;
- a spoonful of butter;
- pepper;
- salt.
Cooking:
- Rinse the steaks with water, pat dry, then grate with spices (salt and pepper).
- Pour vegetable oil onto a clean frying pan, heat it, put pieces of salmon so that there is a small distance between them. Otherwise, they will steam, and not fry, and the crisp will not work.
- Fry steaks for 4 minutes on each side over medium heat.
- Put ready pieces of fish on plates, sprinkle with lemon juice. To give a creamy taste, put a piece of butter on top of each steak.
You can cook the same salmon recipe in breadcrumbs. It is also allowed to roll it in flour before frying.
With dill
Another simple recipe for fried salmon in a pan. Products need a minimum, namely:
- 300 g salmon (in two servings);
- dill;
- olive oil;
- salt;
- butter.
Cooking:
- Cut a piece of fish into two parts.
- Grate with salt and olive oil.
- Heat a pan with vegetable oil, put a piece of salmon there and fry on one side for about 3-4 minutes, then turn on the other side and fry for about 5 minutes. Make sure that the fish does not dry out.
- Finely chop the dill, mix it with butter and grease the prepared salmon so that it acquires a creamy dill flavor.
They serve such fish with brown or white rice.
With ginger
In a pan, fried salmon is more juicy than in the oven.
You will need:
- 1.5 kg of salmon;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 3 cm of ginger root;
- two tablespoons of sesame seeds;
- two tablespoons of soy sauce;
- ground black pepper.
Cooking:
- Grate the ginger root.
- Mix the root with vegetable oil, pepper and soy sauce.
- Lubricate salmon pieces with the resulting marinade and leave to soak for 10 minutes.
- Roll each piece of fish in sesame seeds.
- Fry salmon in vegetable oil on a hot frying pan on two sides (for 4-5 minutes each).
Serve vegetables or rice as a side dish for salmon fried in a pan.
Gourmet dish
The recipe is called a restaurant, and it will require the following ingredients:
- four steaks;
- vegetable oil;
- 250 g of yogurt (unsweetened, without filler and additives);
- fresh cucumber;
- garlic;
- lemon;
- salt.
Cooking:
- Rinse the steaks, dry and remove the bones with tweezers.
- Pour salmon over lemon juice.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan, lay out the fish and fry without turning, but pour over boiling oil during frying. The fish will be ready if it becomes paler on top and when pressed, transparent juice will stand out. Salt just before the end of frying.
- Make a sauce of yogurt and mashed cucumber in a blender with added salt and chopped garlic.
Serve pan-fried salmon steaks with lettuce and boiled potatoes.
With apple and onion sauce
How to fry fish? For starters, you can pickle it to get a new taste.
What you need for the marinade:
- lemon juice;
- pepper;
- salt;
- dill.
For the sauce:
- three tablespoons of butter;
- three leek heads (white part);
- ½ green apples;
- salt;
- white pepper;
The recipe for step by step fried salmon in a pan:
- Grate fish pieces with salt and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice, put dill in sprigs and leave to marinate for a quarter of an hour at room temperature.
- Melt the butter in a bowl, then put the grated apple in it, add the finely chopped leek, salt, pepper, put on the fire and cook for about 8 minutes with constant stirring. When it begins to boil, remove from heat.
- Free pickled fish from dill so that it does not burn in a pan, and fry in vegetable oil on both sides - 4 minutes each.
Fried salmon served with onion and apple sauce, fresh vegetables and crumbly rice.
With cauliflower
The original recipe with vegetables will appeal to lovers of dietary dishes.
What do you need:
- 330 g of fish;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- 300 g of cauliflower;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- salt pepper;
- basil.
Cooking:
- Cabbage divided into inflorescences. Peel the garlic, wash the tomatoes and cut into cubes. Grate the cheese finely.
- Cut the fish in portions.
- Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the garlic cloves for a minute, then remove it (it is no longer needed).
- In this oil, put the cabbage inflorescences and simmer for about 10 minutes in a moderate flame, then lay out the tomatoes and simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Put salmon slices in a pan, salt and pepper, toss the dried basil, cover and cook for about 10 minutes.
- A couple of minutes before being ready, open the lid and sprinkle the contents of the pan with grated cheese and close again. Hold on the fire for another one or two minutes.
Fish selection
The freshness of fish is one of the important criteria for obtaining dishes with high palatability. Fresh salmon has an elastic flesh with a dense structure. Since mainly frozen fish is on sale, you need to focus on its color: it should not be too pale or, conversely, too saturated. It is pallor to speak of repeated thawing and freezing, in which case the fish will turn out to be dry. Too bright a color may indicate the use of dyes. Natural salmon is not uniform, but with bright veins.
Cooking secrets
It is best to fry salmon in a pan with a thick bottom, which must first be properly heated.
You need to cut into pieces about 2.5 cm thick. Too thick may not fry, and thin ones will be dry.
The best sauce in which you can fry salmon is cream or sour cream.
During frying, you can add vegetables, seafood or mushrooms. Potatoes are not suitable for joint cooking; they can be boiled separately, then served as a side dish.
Oil for frying should be taken only refined sunflower, but not olive.