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This easy sheet pan dinner is packed with flavors straight from the farm! Use up that fresh basil, parsley, cherry tomatoes, and green beans in this Herb Butter Salmon with Blistered Tomatoes and Green Beans dish! It comes together in under 20 minutes and will be a hit with the entire family!
Sheet Pan Herb Butter Salmon Recipe
This Sheet Pan Herb Butter Salmon recipe is is the ultimate summer meal! It utilizes fresh veggies like cherry tomatoes and green beans and cooks quickly under the broiler. The herb butter makes the salmon really special and gives this dish a bright finish. This sheet pan fish dish is a light and quick weeknight dinner you can get on the dinner from start to finish in roughly 30 minutes with minimal clean up! It’s gluten-free, low-carb and paleo friendly.
Sheet pan dinners are the best because they minimize clean up by utilizing one cooking vessel and they make cooking hands-off. This sheet pan dinner is low carb for a nice light meal that is still going to leave you satisfied. It is packed with flavor and loaded with fresh, in-season vegetables.
How to Make Herb Butter
An herb butter is a compound butter! A Compound butter is simply a mixture of softened butter and flavorful components like herbs and spices. For this salmon recipe we combine butter with a bunch of fresh herbs. We love using grass-fed butter like Kerrygold or Vital Farms, but really any butter you use will have an improved taste with the addition of herbs!
To make herb butter simply combine softened butter with the prepared herbs. You can make it up to 2 days ahead, if kept in the refrigerator.
Tips for Sheet Pan Cooking:
- Read the recipe all the way through (of course) and plan to use a timer! Most recipes require different cooking times, so make sure to use a timer so you can truly walk away from the oven and not have to worry about when your adding anything in to the oven.
- Do the prep ahead of time to make for a quick meal: Clean the vegetables and make the herb butter the night before or that morning if you are looking to speed up the process when it comes time for the actual cooking.
- Use parchment paper to make clean up a breeze.
- Use the correct size sheet pan. When we say sheet pan we are referring to the rimmed half sheet pan which is 18″ by 13″. The size of the sheet pan matters because you do not want to overcrowd the pan when cooking, so if you are using a smaller sheet pan you may need to use 2 to achieve the same result.
If you like this salmon recipe, check out these others:
- Maple Glazed Salmon
- Tomato Jalapeno Salmon Burgers
- Horseradish Encrusted Salmon
- Salmon and Veggies en Papillote
If you like this sheet pan recipe, check out these others:
- Chicken “Pizza” Sheet Pan Dinner
- Sheet Pan Greek Meatballs with Veggies and Chickpeas
- Sheet Pan Steak Fajitas
- Sheet Pan Ranch Chicken and Vegetables
Herb Butter Salmon with Blistered Tomatoes and Green Beans
Ingredients
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes
- 4 cups string beans cleaned
- 2 tablespoons oil
- Pinch sea salt
- Pinch cracked black pepper
- 1 pound wild-caught salmon
For the Herb Butter:
- 1/4 cup grass-fed butter softened
- 1/4 cup packed fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup packed fresh basil
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- Pinch fine sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat broiler to high.
- In a bowl toss tomatoes and string beans with oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Place on a baking sheet and broil for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile make herb butter: Mix together softened butter, parsley, basil, garlic and salt until well combined.
- Brush butter on to salmon and place on the sheet pan.
- Broil for 7 to 9 minutes (longer for thicker salmon), until veggies are blistered and salmon is cooked through. Taste and adjust seasoning. Serve immediately.
This was absolutely delicious!!!
I have a tiny tiny broiler drawer – do you think it could be baked at a very high temperature?
Delicious! It was simple and yummy. I left one piece of salmon without the herb butter for my four year old and ten month old and they gobbled it right up. The baby even ate a ton of the tomatoes.
It looks so delicious! I’m definitely going to try it. Thanks for the recipe!
I have an incredible amount of CSA green beans just waiting for this recipe to be made! As a mom with a 2 and 4 year old, I love that there is one pan for the complete meal. Brilliant!
Wooohooo!
i am a foodie and love all your recipes. i will try this surely. thanks for sharing.
My broiler is a drawer under my oven with no way to adjust the distance from the flame. I gave the beans and tomatoes a shimmy before the 5 minute mark because it smelled like something was burning (it was not), put 1.3 lbs of salmon on for 8 minutes, and pulled the tray out which triggered the smoke alarm to go off. To my dismay the veggies and herbs looked dark, like charred and burnt! Much darker than your pictures. I thought to myself ‘well I’m not doing this again’.
I served it all up anyways(waste not) and it was GOOD! very flavorful. The char on the veggies was the good kind of char and the salmon was super moist. No burnt flavor what so ever. BF also a fan and he had a second helping of veggies, always a good sign 🙂 i would definitely recommend this recipe and make it again, with more windows open and maybe a fan blowing. Thanks for posting! (In case anyone cares about this: even with more salmon, i still didn’t use all the herb butter)
also a technical note to author: i wasn’t able to post a comment from my phone (android) the ‘Post Comment’ button did not function when clicked.