How To Cook Salmon With Skin In A Frying Pan
Generously season the salmon fillets with salt and pepper.
How to cook salmon with skin in a frying pan. Once the butter starts bubbling add the salmon fillets to the pan skin side down and fry for 3 mins until crisp. You want the skin to have 100 per cent contact with the heat of the pan so that it will crisp. Heat the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat about 2 minutes.
If you have thin fillets cook each wide side for 2 minutes. Salmon fillets that are 6 to 8 ounces in weight will need to cook for a total of about 4 minutes. If your fillets are pretty thick on one end and taper to thin on the other end consider pan frying the large wide sides for 1 1 2 minutes each and 30 seconds on each narrow small side.
Put the oil and butter in a non stick frying pan over a medium heat swirling around the pan until melted and foaming then turn up the heat. Cook until skin is browned and crisp about 3 minutes. Use an egg flipper or a flat saucepan lid to press the salmon firmly down into the pan to stop it from curling up.