Jacques Pépin’s Salmon with Creamy Pesto Butter | Cooking at Home | KQED

Jacques Pépin’s baked salmon with pesto butter recipe is a quick and easy classic. This is his “no frills” version that uses store-bought pesto. Serve this as a first course or whip up one of Jacques’ rice and veggie dishes and have it as a main course. Happy cooking!

What you’ll need:
4 oz salmon, salt, olive oil, 1 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp pesto, pepper, basil or oregano for garnish

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– Hi. I’m Jacques Pepin, and I’m cooking at home. I like to do simple recipe with fish very often. I have small filet of fish here. It’s about four ounces, as you can see, cut the whole way. This is thicker here, so also what you do, bring it back here so that they’re about the same sickness.

And what I want to do here, just a tiny bit of salt on top of it on each side, and just a dash of oil, and a dash of, on top like this. It’s not even a teaspoon. I put it on top, run it there just to mark it.

Okay, and then we put that in the oven. 350 degree, like five minute. While it’s cooking, you do the sauce. I have one tablespoon of butter here in the microwave oven just to melt it, and then I put some pesto. Very often, of course, I do my own pesto

When I have a lot of basil in the garden in summer and so forth, but sometime I buy it. It makes it easier. 30 seconds for that, and yeah, I would say like two tablespoon of this. Use the pesto, of course, not only on top of fish, but mostly for pasta,

But this is a very delicious mixture. Better taste, yeah. Yep. Dash of pepper. I think there is enough salt in there. Remember I put a bit of salt on the salmon. Seven minute at 350 degree, and you know, for me it’s a bit rare. It is just the way,

Like remember that this is a good inch here, so of course, if it’s thicker, a bit longer, if it’s thinner, a bit less. You have to adjust. Okay, so here you can see my salmon, and on the side it will be darker, you know, underneath. Okay, you serve that with this.

A small portion like that, four ounces is great at the first course, which is often what I do. And here is the salmon in the pesto sauce. I have a little bit of a basil from the garden, a little bit of oregano here, so why not I put it in there.

And this is it. Baked salmon in butter pesto sauce. Bon apetit, and happy cooking.