Keto Salmon with Cream Sauce

Name: Keto Salmon with Cream Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Keto
Ingredients: 4 salmon fillets, skin on; 200ml double cream; 2 tbsp butter; 3 cloves garlic, minced; 1 lemon, juiced and zested; 1 handful fresh dill; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp salt and black pepper

Pan-seared salmon finished with a rich lemon and dill cream sauce — elegant and completely low-carb. Making the sauce in the same pan the salmon was seared in is what picks up all the browned bits and crispy skin flecks left behind, folding them into the finished sauce.

Total time

20 min

Prep

5 min

Cook

15 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Keto

gluten-freeketo

Ingredients

4salmon fillets, skin on

200mldouble cream

2 tbspbutter

3 clovesgarlic, minced

1lemon, juiced and zested

1 handfulfresh dill

2 tbspolive oil

1 tspsalt and black pepper

Instructions

Pat salmon dry and season generously.

Heat olive oil in a pan over high heat.

Cook salmon skin side down 4 minutes until skin is crispy.

Flip and cook 2 more minutes, remove from pan.

Melt butter in same pan, fry garlic 1 minute.

Add cream, lemon juice and zest.

Simmer 3 minutes until slightly thickened.

Return salmon to pan, scatter with dill and serve.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

387

Protein

5.6g

Fat

39.3g

Carbs

3.8g

Fiber

0.6g

Sodium

276mg

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