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How To Cook Salmon Steaks

Salmon is one of the tastiest types of fish you can buy, and it is very simple to cook too. In this step by step guide Paul Ellis, chef and cookery school owner, shows you how to cook salmon steak with lemon and lime. Enlarge

How To Cook Salmon Steaks

Salmon is one of the tastiest types of fish you can buy, and it is very simple to cook too. In this step by step guide Paul Ellis, chef and cookery school owner, shows you how to cook salmon steak with lemon and lime.

Prep:
2m
Cook:
6m
Total:
8m
Serves:
1

Ingredients

  • olive oil
  • 1 salmon fillet
  • flour
  • 1/4 lemon
  • 1/4 lime
  • 1 tsp butter

Method

Heat a little olive oil in a frying pan on a medium heat.

Score the skin of the fish with a knife, then dust it all over with flour.

Put the fillet in the pan skin side down and sprinkle over some salt and pepper. Cook for about 3-4 minutes until the skin has gone brown and crispy, then turn the fish over.

Add a squeeze of lime and lemon juice and a little piece of butter. Cook for another 3-4 minutes, basting the fish with the juices a couple of times.