Name: Cilantro Lime Salmon
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 cloves garlic (minced); 1 1/4 tablespoons lime juice; 1/2 teaspoon salt or more to taste; 3 dashes cayenne pepper; 1 lb. salmon fillet; 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro; Lime for garnishing

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Cilantro Lime Salmon - the best and easiest cilantro lime salmon ever. 10 minutes active time and the rest in the oven. So good!

Easiest and best oven-baked cilantro lime salmon with a fork.

Cilantro and lime are two of my favorite ingredients, for example: my mouthwatering cilantro lime chicken recipe.

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Imagine the same flavor combination on salmon fillet.

Can you imagine the taste in your mouth as you sink you teeth into the salmon?

Cilantro lime salmon is absolutely delicious.

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Making Cilantro Lime Salmon is easier than you thought and calls for only a few basic ingredients.

Some people don’t like the fishy taste of salmon but with cilantro, lime juice, garlic and cayenne pepper in my recipe, you will only taste the fresh good taste of salmon and nothing else.

Cilantro lime salmon oven-baked, ready to serve.

The best thing about this recipe is that it takes basically 10 minutes active time.

The oven is doing all the hard work.

With salmon, you only need about 15 minutes to cook the fish.

However, some salmon fillet is thicker than usual so please check the doneness before serving.

Bon appetit!

How Many Calories per Serving?

This recipe is only 457 calories per serving.

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