How To Cook Salmon In Skillet With Skin
Place a 10 to 12 inch saute pan or skillet over medium heat.
How to cook salmon in skillet with skin. How to cook crispy skin salmon. 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. Cook skin side down for 3 minutes.
Flip cook until flesh side starts to brown 6 8 minutes more. Arrange salmon skin side down in skillet. This will take about six minutes for a large fillet like this.
Heat to medium high and sprinkle with remaining salt and pepper over top. Turn and cook for a further 2 minutes. Heat your pan till you feel warmth coming off of the pan when you hold your hand about 4 inches above it.
Drizzle a teaspoon of olive oil in the pan. Cook salmon until fat begins to render and skin starts to brown 6 7 minutes. Serve with a squeeze of lemon.
Use an egg flipper or a flat saucepan lid to press the salmon firmly down into the pan to stop it from curling up. Once the butter starts bubbling add the salmon fillets to the pan skin side down and fry for 3 mins until crisp. Place the fish skin side down in the pan pressing down firmly with a fish spatula.
Sprinkle half of salt and pepper mixture in bottom of a large nonstick skillet. If your salmon is slightly thicker cook for an extra 1 2 minutes. You want the skin to have 100 per cent contact with the heat of the pan so that it will crisp.