salmon with potatoes

We're bringing you a plate of sunshine for dinner! Perfectly golden-crisp salmon partnered next to oven-roasted asparagus and a buttery, rich, creamy leek sauce piled on crispy potatoes. 

Spring Salmon with Creamed Leeks, Potatoes, and Asparagus

leeks,

butter

garlic,

heavy cream

– 1 cup chicken or vegetable broth

lemon zest

salt and pepper

potatoes,

asparagus, tough bottom stems

salmon (1 small filet per serving)

olive oil, salt, and lemon juice

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Place the sliced leeks in a bowl of water. Gently massage and break them apart so that any dirt trapped between the layers gets released. Let the dirt settle and then pull the leeks out of the bowl, discarding the water. Repeat as many times as necessary to get them clean. (My 3 year old daughter loves to help with this! Great kid activity.)

Place your potatoes on a sheet pan and drizzle with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Roast for 10 minutes.

After ten minutes, add the asparagus to the pan, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Return the pan to the oven for another 10-15 minutes.

While everything is roasting, melt the butter in a skillet over medium high heat. Add the leeks; cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the leeks are soft and yummy. 

Add the garlic and thyme in with the leeks; cook for a few minutes until it&#8217;s very fragrant. Add the broth and the cream; let the whole thing come to a low simmer until it&#8217;s comes together like a nice creamy sauce, about 10-15 minutes (I just leave it on the heat slowly bubbling while the other veggies are roasting). Remove from heat and add the lemon zest to the mixture. Taste and season. 

Heat a bit of oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Add the salmon, skin side down, and cook for a few minutes until you can gently release and flip the salmon. Cook for a few minutes on the other side until the exterior is golden brown and the salmon is cooked to your desired level of doneness.

Pour the creamy leek mixture over the roasted potatoes. Bake for 10 minutes or until the salmon is done and the creamed leeks and potato mixture is bubbly and browned at the edges. Serve straight off the pan with lemon wedges and extra herbs. YUMO!

This was delicious but the recipe needs some help!! 

Potatoes: What kind of potatoes? I used russet and sliced wedges and had to roast much longer than the directions.

Leeks: I had 1 leek that was MASSIVE, I couldn’t imagine having 2 more. Some size reference would be helpful for recipe consistency or to know the actual quantity you’re attempting to get. 

Salmon: I would imagine cast iron is best here? Mine smokes up the house so I used a non stick pan and my salmon still got crispy but a type of pan would be helpful. 

The lemon zest made a magical difference and the creamed leeks could be eaten by the spoonful. It really was a delicious recipe but I couldn’t find the video to watch how you prepared it so I wasn’t sure the right consistency of the leeks. Mine also didn’t brown on the edges so I broiled them and that worked!

Really yummy! Couldn't get the potatoes/leek mixture to crisp up on their own but broiling them helped. Also may have had too many leeks compared to the potato despite using the three recommended - maybe would use one or two next time.

We enjoyed this as an easy weeknight dinner! Loved the crispy salmon and the creamy leeks.  Thanks for the recipe.

I made this last night and it was lovely. I’ve never cooked with leeks before and they were great! Also my husband’s work sent him home with crawfish and it went really well with all the spicy crawfish and fixings. It’s really balanced it all out. Yum!!

Obsessed with this recipe! I used coconut milk instead of heavy cream and it was still a great consistency and flavor!

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