Grilled Salmon with Pesto Dill Butter, Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Steamed Broccoli

Everyone needs a "go to" meal they can put together for guests or special occasions and mine is grilled salmon with pesto dill butter served with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and broccoli. In this post I'm just going to give the ingredients and preparation for the grilled salmon, but at the bottom of the posting I'll give links to my roasted garlic mashed potatoes and restaurant style steamed broccoli and carrots. 

 

Ingredients:

Salmon filets with skin on

Olive oil

4 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon pesto sauce. I used Classico brand Basil Pasto Sauce

Fresh dill

Salt and pepper

Chopped Italian parsley

 

  

Preparation:

To make the pesto dill butter, start by taking about 4 tablespoon of butter and place into a small microwave proof bowl. Add a teaspoon of pesto and  a dash chopped fresh dill. Heat in the microwave until the butter is soft, not melted. Stir the butter, pesto and dill and place into the freezer. After 5 or so minutes the pesto dill butter will harden up. Take a small spoon and shape the pesto butter into small pats and place on some wax paper and place into the refrigerator until you're ready to serve.

  

Preheat a stove top grill pan to medium high. I use the stove top grill pan from Scanpan. Brush some olive oil on each piece of salmon, season with salt and pepper and cook skin side up on the grill for 4 minutes. After 4 minutes, rotate the salmon 90 degrees. This will give the salmon the nice cross hatched grill marks. Cook the salmon for another 4 minutes.

 

After a total of 8 minutes turn the salmon over so the skin side is down and finish cooking, about 8 minutes more. When cooking is complete, remove the salmon from the grill pan leaving the cooked skin behind.

 

To serve, place the salmon on a serving plate. Place a sprig of dill on the salmon and then your pesto dill butter. Add a scoop of roasted garlic mashed potatoes, some steamed broccoli and garnish with chopped Italian parsley. 

 

 

Here's the link to: Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Here's the link to: Restaurant Style Broccoli and Carrots