How To Cook Salmon With Skin On 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.
How to cook salmon with skin on in a frying pan. 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. You want the skin to have 100 per cent contact with the heat of the pan so that it will crisp. To avoid this as soon as the salmon is in the pan press gently but firmly on the back of it for about 10 seconds with a flexible slotted fish spatula for more information see our guide to the best fish spatulas.
Generously season the salmon fillets with salt and pepper. Left unattended salmon skin will buckle and curl which can make the fish cook unevenly. Salmon fillets that are 6 to 8 ounces in weight will need to cook for a total of about 4 minutes.
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.