Salmon Piccata

Sharing another seafood take on classic Chicken Piccata with this Salmon Piccata recipe. Skinless Salmon fillets cooked in one pan with lemony caper, garlic, and wine Piccata Sauce. This recipe comes together so fast this will become your favorite weeknight salmon dinner. Serve with pasta or a crusty bread to mop the delicious sauce. Your family will love the flavors. 

Honestly, for me Piccata is all about a well prepared and tasty piccata sauce.  This recipe is a keeper as piccata sauce get cooked-an-hour taste in just 15 minutes. 

Salmon Piccata

Traditionally famous Piccata is Chicken Piccata where skillet-cooked chicken thighs are tossed in a lemon, garlic, and capers pan sauce. 

I love to make variations of Piccata as per protein in hand. This piccata recipe comes togteher faster than 25 minutes. It is one our favorite for weeknight dinner.

Let's make Salmon Piccata for dinner tonight!

What Do You Need to Make Salmon Piccata?

The star ingredients to make Salmon Piccata is Salmon. I use skinless salmon fillets which I always have in-hand, frozen or fresh from local butcher. Here is a complete list of ingredients:

1. Salmon fillets
2. Capers
3. White Wine
4. Garlic
5. Chicken Stock or Water
6. Olive Oil
7. Lemon Juice
8. Flour
9. Salt and pepper

What is best about this Salmon Piccata Recipe?

Two things get great consistent feedback:

1. perfectly cooked salmon
2. silky piccata sauce.

Cooking Salmon for Piccata Sauce

Skinless Salmon cooks very fast. I cook salmon and sauce in same pan. Simply place salmon skinned side up into a hot pan with shimmering oil and let salmon cook undisturbed until nice crust develops. Flip and then cook other side in covered pan until just cooked through (about 5 minutes)

This is how Salmon looks when just ready in the pan. 

Tip: To keep salmon perfect cooked and succulent, cook it on high heat so that crust develops. Once sauce is ready, pour hot sauce over the cooked salmon to warm it up.

Salmon Piccata Sauce

To make Piccata Sauce thick and silky, I do two simple things: 1) Use a little bit flour roux to thicken the sauce 2) Melt butter in the sauce off heat to create smooth sheen. A little bit of flour goes a long way.

Here is the finished piccata sauce thickened with just a tsp flour and with butter gently melted in the sauce. Always perfection!

Tip: You can use same sauce to serve Chicken Piccata. (hint hint)

I love to serve extra sauce on the side. My friends and family love extra sauce on the pasta.

What to Serve with Salmon Piccata?

Here are my 3 top favorite ways to serve Piccata:

1. Serve Piccata with pasta such as angel hair noodles lite coated in olive oil and parmesan.
2. For low carb, serve Piccata with zucchini noodles.
3. Serve Piccata with Cauliflower Mash or Potato Mash with side of lite sautéed spinach, Or steamed broccoli, or asparagus.

Friends, this Salmon Piccata will be a great addition to any weeknight cook's recipe repertoire. Try something different for dinner tonight. Thaw some salmon fillets from freezer or grab few fresh. Either way, dinner will be ready in 25 minutes! I can't wait to hear the feedback.