Oven Baked Lemon Zest Salmon with herbs & Spices

Hi ya guys and gurls, hoped you had a wonderful weekend :), before last weekend, a friend of mine made a request to me. She had been dying for some salmon :) and some Pasta in French dressing. Therefore I set out to cook for them :) after they heard that I was cooking, they recommended to come to my place to swim first then eat hearty hehe..

Ingredients :

400 grams of fresh Salmon with skin,
1/2 Table Spoon of Sea Salt
1/2 Cup of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Table spoon of grated Black Pepper
3/4 pounds of Coarsely Chopped Basil Leaves.
1/2 Table spoon of Lemon Zest
1 teaspoon of Dill
1 teaspoon of Sage
1 teaspoon of Parsley
2 large 5 mm thick slices of lemon
Aluminum foils for baking.

First you need to spread out the Aluminum foil over a flat wide surface. Make sure you got lots of room to work with. Then sprinkle the surface of the foil sparingly with Olive oil , pepper and sea salt shaken on top. Dont need to coat it all inch by inch, just a 2 to 3 good shakes of pepper and salt will do just fine.

Next cut the Salmon in to 4 thick long slices of 5 cm to 6 cm thickness. Make sure its across the grin with one end is thicker then the other. Now lay piece by piece on 1 side first.

Next again 2 t 3 shakes of Sea salt again with pepper over the pieces, next take a few pinches of all the spices like the parsley, dill , sage and thyme leaves and sprinkle over them. Now take a Lemon Zest and also sprinkle over that side of the salmon. Repeat for all the other 2 slices.
Note not to over sprinkle the Sea Salt, else the meat becomes a little bit too salty hehe.

Now make sure you place the salmon with the skin under them touching the aluminum foil, the skin is better as it will not burn and stick to the foil while baking. Finally sprinkle a little of olive oil again over their tops.

Now place the 2 large slices of Lemon over the meat top, and fold the aluminum foil over them .

Preheat the oven to 150 degree celcius or about 300 degree Fahrenheit. Next place the whole aluminum package into the oven and bake for 20 mins.

Remove and serve on a warm plate.

Salmon has the highest level of sources for Omega oil which is great for health :) Bon Appetit !