Best Easy Healthy Baked Salmon

Rating

4.99 stars (3095 reviews)

Keywords

baked salmon recipe, easy salmon recipe, healthy salmon recipe

Ingredients

• 4 salmon fillets (about 6 ounces each)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• ½ teaspoon salt (or to taste)
• ¼ teaspoon cracked black pepper (just a pinch if using finely ground black pepper)
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 1 teaspoon Italian herb seasoning blend (OR herbs de provence, or ¼ teaspoon each dried thyme, parsley, oregano, and basil)
• 1 medium lemon

Categories

• Main Course

Cuisine

• American

Reviews

• Suzanne B on 2026-05-18 (5 stars):
  Great tasting recipe with on hand ingredients. A keeper!
• Brenda Lindsey on 2026-04-28 (5 stars):
  Rated for ease to prepare, clarity of directions and taste of salmon. After 12 minutes at 400, the salmon was flavored perfectly and was juicy, perfectly cooked. I cooked skin side down and did not broil the fish. I will prepare this dish often.
• Judy Zahrndt on 2026-04-27 (5 stars):
  I really like Delish recipes. They are almost always very tasty. This one took just a few minutes to prepare, and was fabulous. Instead of salt and pepper, though, I used Chef Prudhomme Magic Salmon Seasoning and a dash of his Magic Seafood Seasoning. (Comes from living in Louisiana for 40 years!). This recipe was so easy, and SO very delicious. I will definitely make it again!
• William R Dougherty on 2026-04-27 (5 stars):
  Nice recipe and write up! Very thorough. One thing I'm not sure if you mentioned as I read this webpage real fast: the difference between farm raised junk salmon and the good stuff, wild caught. I'm a biochemist and environmental chemist so here is why this is so important. Farm raised: harvested from warm climate ponds and fed absolute junk so not healthy. Not being in cold climate also makes it less healthy. You mentioned red dye in salmon...yes, it is always in only farm raised because farm raised salmon is not even red or pink, originally grey, yuck! Wild Caught: Wild caught salmon has a high fat content but most people know nothing about fats. First of all, salmon from very cold water has to have fats/oils in its body to keep from freezing in the cold water. The wonderful thing is that the oils are liquid even in cold water and more liquid at ambient. Simplified, fats that are liquid in your body/bloodstream are very good for us. Fats that are solid at body temperature are to be avoided. Eating fat DOES NOT make us fat. So long as the fat is oils like olive oil or salmon oil from cold water wild salmon. Carbohydrates make us fat, not consuming fats that hardly any of us get enough of as long as they are healthy and liquid at body temperature. Farm raised salmon, in ponds, in warmer climates are fed absolute junk, garbage, I would never touch the stuff. Garbage in and you are eating garbage. Wild caught salmon can have as much as 35 grams of fat but all of it is good for you and even can help keep arteries and veins clear of buildup. A thin film develops on artery plaque and therefore the plaque becomes almost impossible to remove. Good oils like wild salmon and olive oil, as well as vitamin K2, can dissolve the thin film and then our bodies are smart enough to remove the plaque below the thin film all by itself. I'm 70 and people think I am in early 40's. What I've learned is what the government tells us is absolutely wrong most of the time....like egg yolks being demonized. At NIH we found that zero cholesterol from egg yolks ends up in your blood stream and it is the same type of cholesterol our brains are made. NIH did multiple studies that if you are sure to consume egg yolks as we get older that alzheimers/dementia will decrease to 1/5 as likely in the population in studies. Better, when the fed govt demonized egg yolks the % of older people with all types of dementia skyrocketed at least 5 times greater at exactly the same time. I got off topic here and you should remove the end part here not related to salmon if you post it. I don't know if you want to post that farm raised salmon is like eating candy bars either but I'm glad for you to know about it. Thanks for your recipes! billy
• Likes to cook on 2026-04-24 (5 stars):
  Easy and tasty. I didn't think olive oil would work with fish, but am pleasantly surprised.
• B on 2026-04-18 (5 stars):
  My favorite salmon recipe!
• Jayde on 2026-04-01 (5 stars):
  Perfect week-night recipe; quick, delicious, healthy, and contains ingredients you have on hand.
• Shelly Hudson on 2026-04-01 (5 stars):
  Amazing recipe. Never fixed salmon before.
• Wendy on 2026-04-01 (5 stars):
  Couldn't be easier and is do delicious. I made it with Herbs de Provence and it was amazing, and right now it's in the oven with Italian herbs. Highly recommended!
• Cris on 2026-03-31 (5 stars):
  Loved the recipe will add to my collection
• Chris on 2026-03-25 (4 stars):
  Very Good and easy
• Brenda on 2026-03-24 (5 stars):
  I can easily say, without a doubt, this salmon recipe was the absolute best I have ever tasted! I can’t wait to have salmon again!!😋 Brenda

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