Oven Poached Salmon With Yogurt Dill Sauce
This oven poached salmon with yogurt dill sauce is delicious and nutritious. Oven poaching with lemon and herbs produces moist, flavorful, and aromatic salmon. The yogurt dill sauce puts this healthy & tasty dish over the top.
Equipment
- oven
Ingredients
- 1 lb salmon, deboned and skin removed
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 each lemons, peeled zest and juice
- 1 bunch dill, chopped reserve a few sprigs for poaching
- 4 sprigs parsley
- 3 tbsp water
- 1 cup greek yogurt, plain
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- 0.25 tsp garlic powder
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 deg. F. Place lemon zest, garlic, parsley, a few springs of dill, and water in a baking dish. Season salmon with salt. Place salmon in baking dish on top of other ingredients. Cover baking dish and put dish in oven. Salmon should be done in about 20 minutes, when salmon is just cooked through. Internal temperature should be about 125 deg. F.
- While salmon is cooking in oven, make the dill yogurt sauce. Combine yogurt, mayonnaise, juice of one lemon, chopped dill, and garlic powder. Season with salt. Adjust consistency of sauce to your liking with lemon juice and/or water.
- Let salmon rest for five minutes after coming out of oven. Serve immediately with dill yogurt sauce.