Recipes With Pesto And Salmon

Pesto Salmon is a taste of sunshine! Tender fillets of salmon slathered with pesto and baked alongside juicy roasted tomatoes that have been tossed in even more pesto, this healthy dinner recipe is exactly what to cook for dinner next week.

A blend of herbs, Parmesan cheese, nuts, lemon, and olive oil, Basil Pesto sings with the promise of warm afternoons, late sunsets, and the kind of easy dinners I long to cook all summer long.

Pesto is versatile, vibrant, and anything you add it to comes to life (I actually have a whole list of simple, unique ways to use pesto sauce in my cookbook!).

Pesto Salmon And Potatoes Recipe

This recipe’s ingredient list is short, one of the reasons I adore it for easy weeknight dinners that still taste special enough to serve to guests.

If you are new to cooking salmon, be sure to check out How to Cook Salmon, which contains my best salmon cooking tips.

Thanks to the vegetables that cook along with this baked pesto salmon recipe, you can easily serve it as a stand-alone main course. If you’d like to bulk it up more, here are some ideas:

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Your jar of pesto need not go to waste! Try pesto spread on a sandwich, as a salad dressing, scrambled into eggs, or as a marinade for Grilled Chicken Skewers.

An open jar of pesto can last several weeks in the refrigerator. Since air causes pesto to taste less fresh, keep pesto in a small jar, press a sheet of plastic wrap against the pesto’s surface, then tightly secure the lid.

In addition to the vegetables and noodles suggested above, you can also serve pesto salmon with orzo, farro or another grain. Or try it with cauliflower rice for a low-carb option.

Recipe: Sheet Pan Pesto Salmon With Roasted Vegetables

Sheet pan pesto salmon with tomatoes is perfect for fast, healthy dinners. The salmon is tender and flaky and the pesto makes it taste fresh!

Serving: 1 (of 4) Calories: 383 kcal Carbohydrates: 14 g Protein: 37 g Fat: 19 g Saturated Fat: 3 g Cholesterol: 95 mg Potassium: 1393 mg Fiber: 3 g Sugar: 8 g Vitamin A: 1680 IU Vitamin C: 56 mg Calcium: 90 mg Iron: 3 mg

Hi, I'm Erin Clarke, and I'm fearlessly dedicated to making healthy food that's affordable, easy-to-make, and best of all DELISH. I'm the author and recipe developer here at and of The Well Plated Cookbook. I adore both sweets and veggies, and I am on a mission to save you time and dishes. WELCOME!Simple pan-seared salmon is smothered in a flavorful spinach basil pesto sauce for a healthier dinner you can have ready in under 15 minutes. — Serve this salmon with a green salad and you’ve got dinner done!

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Once in awhile, believe it or not, I do like to keep dinner stuff on the side that screams SIMPLE. That would be this pan-seared salmon for ya. —> —>

Living proof that once in awhile I can put away the browned butter and the grilled pineapple and just let the simple dinner things speak for themselves.

So how long has it been since we last did pesto ANYTHING around these parts, guys? Like weeks and weeks and WEEKS. For awhile during this summer I had a steady stream of pesto recipes popping up on the blog like once every few days, but that obviously fizzled out.

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I mean, it’s probably a good thing this pan-seared salmon wandered into my life because obviously it’s now in yours and for that you should be praising the pesto gods, because it is KILLER.

How we start. —> Make our pesto. This should be second nature to most of you by now if you’ve spent even a millisecond on my blog. Spinach, basil leaves, pine nuts, a splash of lime juice, garlic, Parmesan, olive oil, and good ‘ol salt and pepper take a spin in the food processor…

Salmon time. Pat your fillets completely dry with paper towels, then season both sides liberally with salt and pepper. Meanwhile, make sure your pan is nice and hot with oil in the bottom all ready for searing. Sear the salmon on both sides and our job is almoooooost done here, I promise.

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All that’s left to do is smother those fillets in gobs of fresh pesto sauce, then stand back and stare at your green masterpiece. It really is a masterpiece, guys.

Serving: 1 g | Calories: 318 kcal | Carbohydrates: 0.9 g | Protein: 21.6 g | Fat: 26.6 g | Saturated Fat: 4.8 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 21.8 g | Cholesterol: 48 mg | Sodium: 134 mg

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Easy Pesto Salmon