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Easy Baked Everything Bagel Salmon Recipe – this savory, delicious salmon is the perfect easy meal for any lover of Everything Bagel Seasoning – it is salty, savory, rich, and delicious. Families love this easy dinner for it’s simple preparation without a fishy smell or taste.
Just season, bake, and flip for fabulous everything salmon flavor in under 15 minutes!
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Everything Bagel Seasoned Salmon
This Easy Baked Everything Bagel Salmon is the best of everything bagels thanks to a delicious Everything Bagel Seasoning crust – giving it a ton of flavor without adding in extra work or calories!
Salmon is a favorite meal for all sorts of diets and healthy eating plans – and this Everything Bagel Salmon recipe is a perfect low carb salmon recipe, and is also a great keto salmon recipe too!
This baked everything bagel salmon is an easy, delicious, and impressive meal to serve anytime you’re looking for a protein packed dinner that looks impressive – but requires very little work.
If you can turn on your oven and flip a piece of fish, you’re already on your way to the most delicious baked salmon recipe ever!
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How To Bake EverythingSalmon
If you don’t have an Everything Bagel Seasoning Mix you love, no worries, I am providing my favorite below!
If you’re looking for an easy and delicious homemade everything bagel seasoning mix, blend the following in equal parts (you may want to reduce the seeds and salt by half though.)
Mix in a bowl and pour into an airtight jar or container and store in a cool, dry place for up to six months.
- Poppy Seeds.
- Sesame Seeds.
- Black Sesame Seeds.
- Minced Dried Garlic.
- Minced Dried Onion.
- Flaked Sea Salt.
For my complete recipe for everything bagel seasoning, including storage tips and other recipes to use it with, please visit my Everything Bagel Seasoning Mix recipe.
Salmon is one of my favorite fishes to cook because it is so easy and forgiving. Salmon is great fried, sauteed, seared, grilled – and baked!
Baking salmon can be as easy as toss it in the oven and open it up to a ton of rich, delicious salmon flavor – but there are a couple tips to make sure you know how to bake salmon that tastes like it’s from your favorite restaurant!
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a small bowl, combine dehydrated garlic, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, caraway seeds and fennel seeds and stir to combine.
- Generously sprinkle salmon with salt and pepper and press skinless side into the “everything” seasoning mixture to coat.
- Heat oil in a large oven-safe heavy pan (I prefer mineral pans) over medium-high heat. Flip.
- Add salmon seed-side down and sear 3-4 minutes. Flip salmon.
- Transfer pan with everything salmon into oven and cook 6-8 minutes, until fish is fully cooked.
- Serve immediately.
Tips and Tricks For Perfect Salmon & FAQs
Follow these tips for how to bake salmon for a perfect fish dinner anytime:
I prefer salmon that has been pre-seared in a heavy pan and a little bit of oil before baking for the best results.
Pre-searing the top (skinless) side of salmon gives the top a chance to crisp up and caramelize before adding to the oven to cook through.
Cover with Foil. To speed up cooking without drying out your fish, cover with foil when baking.
Don’t Overcook. Salmon can be tough and dry when overcooked. Many people overcook fish in hopes of removing the fishy flavor – but overcooked fish is tough, dry, and often tastes much fishier. For the best clean flavor for your fish, resist the urge to overcook. Salmon is cooked at 145 degrees internal temperature.
How to cut down fishy smells: Use fresh fish for less smell. The oven will help absorb some of the fishy smells and fish releases less of them when roasted in the oven. Citrus helps diffuse fishy smells, and adds a bit of zip to your salmon’s flavor.
Keep your fish from sticking to the pan: Heat a heavy pan to a high heat – the hotter the pan when adding the salmon, the less likely it will stick! Use a nonstick, oven-safe pan – I prefer mineral pans, ceramic coated pans, or well seasoned cast iron pans.
How to tell when salmon is cooked: Salmon should be opaque outside and slightly translucent inside to be cooked perfectly. To ensure salmon is cooked through, watch the sides of the fish, especially on the fatter side of your filet, to see when the middle looks white. When salmon is firmed up, but before it releases it’s fat (the white dots that accumulate on salmon when cooked over), salmon is cooked through. If salmon is flaky, it’s likely overcooked and dried out. Instead, salmon should give way and pull apart into pieces when you press the knife into it.
FAQs
Salmon is done when meat is opaque and firm, and the meat has reached 125 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
Some people like to eat salmon medium rare, much like a steak, with a redder middle. Be sure to sear salmon well on the outside, though all food that is undercooked does contain some risk.
Salmon can be stored in the refrigerator for up to three days, or frozen for up to four months.
Of course! We love using store-bought everything bagel seasoning or mixing our own. Use whatever you have on hand.
What to Serve With Baked Everything Salmon
This delicious Everything Salmon Recipe is perfect for a weeknight dinner or even a dinner party – and I’m sharing my favorite dishes to serve alongside Everything Salmon.
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- 10 Minute Broccolini Recipe
- Roasted Cauliflower with Cilantro Cashew Pesto
- Orzo With Sun Dried Tomatoes and Basil Pesto
- The Best Easy Cacio E Pepe Recipe Ever
- Scallop & Pepper Antipasti Salad
Easy Baked Everything Bagel Salmon Recipe
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Baked Everything Bagel Salmon Recipe
Ingredients
INGREDIENTS
- 4 6- ounce salmon fillets, skin on
- Salt and pepper
EVERYTHING BAGEL SEASONING
- 1 ¾ tsp dehydrated garlic, minced (or ½ tsp garlic powder)
- 1 tsp poppy seeds
- 1 tsp white sesame seeds
- ½ tsp caraway seeds
- ¼ tsp fennel seeds
- 1 ½ Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a small bowl, combine dehydrated garlic, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, caraway seeds and fennel seeds and stir to combine.
- Generously sprinkle salmon with salt and pepper and press skinless side into the “everything” seasoning mixture to coat.
- Heat oil in a large oven-safe heavy pan (I prefer mineral pans) over medium-high heat. Flip.
- Add salmon seed-side down and sear 3-4 minutes. Flip salmon.
- Transfer pan with everything salmon into oven and cook 6-8 minutes, until fish is fully cooked.
- Serve immediately.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
How long would you bake this only? Cooking for a large group and unable to fit that many lbs of salmon in a pan or cook it on the stovetop efficiently. Thanks in advance!
The best way to make this for a large group is to slice it into filets, season them then place the filets with a little space between them on a sheet pan/2 sheet pans and bake them at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes (just skip the searing). Test for doneness before removing them then let it sit a few minutes before enjoying!
It came out excellent. It just needed a little bit longer to get a nice sear on the top – perhaps that was because I used a cast-iron pan with peanut oil – but the end result was perfect. Thank you!
I never cooked salmon before and this was a wonderful experience with an exquisite result!! My husband thinks I’m a wizard! Thank you for the explanations and ease to follow the recipe.Lo