How To Bake Salmon Skin Crispy
If you skimp on oil the skin will just burn instead of going golden and it really won t be that crispy.
How to bake salmon skin crispy. Place the salmon on the pan over medium heat skin side first. Cook skin side down for 3 minutes. At this point the skin should still be flabby.
Use an egg flipper or a flat saucepan lid to press the salmon firmly down into the pan to stop it from curling up. Oil helps distribute the pan s heat evenly as well as fry the skin to help crisp it. Heat a good sized frying pan over medium heat add the vegetable oil and when hot place the fish skin side down in the pan.
Taking off the skin so when you re cooking salmon keep that skin on. When the oil is shimmering lay one fillet of salmon skin side down into the pan and immediately do two things. You want the skin to have 100 per cent contact with the heat of the pan so that it will crisp.
Allow the salmon to cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes on each side. Start with the skin side down and let it crisp up. How to cook crispy skin salmon the two key things to ensure crispy salmon skin are dry skin and not skimping on oil.
Remove from heat and garnish with some fresh lemons and enjoy. It s much easier to slide a fish spatula under the salmon s skin than under its delicate flesh. Add a bit of olive oil on your pan season your salmon fillets with your favorite seasoning salt and pepper.
Drizzle olive oil over the flesh of the salmon and use your hands to spread it over the full surface so that everything is coated. Spray with olive oil spray and season with salt and pepper. Stretch the salmon skin on the prepared baking sheet so it is perfectly flat pressing down on the edges if they have curled up.