If you stopped by the blog early last week, you may remember my blog post all about the delicious Paleo cooking class Ryan and I took through Charlotte-based Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen. I received a handful of requests to share the mouth-watering recipes from the event and I thankfully I received approval from Chef Alyssa’s team to share the recipes with you guys. We’re kicking things off with my favorite Paleo recipe of the evening: Coconut Butter Salmon! 
When I saw this recipe in the recipe booklet after we arrived at Chef Alyssa’s cooking class, I knew it would be a winner. Salmon is my favorite fish to make at home (so flavorful and easy!) and coconut butter tastes like heaven. Combining the two is clearly a recipe for success! (<—See what I did there? Muhaha. I love puns forever and ever.)
Ryan and I made Chef Alyssa’s recipe for dinner last night and served it with a tossed Caesar salad on the side. It was just as good as we remembered and we had no trouble polishing off every last bite. The salmon came out of the oven smelling fantastic and flaked perfectly with a fork.
Coconut Butter Salmon
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: dinner, recipes
- Cuisine: dinner
Description
If you are looking for a great Paleo recipe that is simple, delicious, and filling, Coconut Butter Salmon is not only tasty, but coconut butter gives the Salmon a creamier texture.
Ingredients
- 1 pound wild salmon, cut into fillets
- 2 tablespoons coconut butter
- 1 tablespoon ghee (you may also use butter)
- 2 lemons
- 1 teaspoon dry dill
- 1 teaspoon capers (optional)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Spread one tablespoon ghee into baking pan. Place salmon over ghee and top with coconut butter, juice of one lemon, dill, capers, salt and pepper.
- Place in the oven and bake for 12 minutes. Switch oven setting to broil and finish salmon for an additional 1 – 3 minutes.
- Serve with wedges of remaining lemon.
During Friday night’s cooking class, Chef Alyssa had class participants serve the salmon with Paleo Creamy Sweet Potato Noodles:
Here’s the recipe for this delicious side for those who may be interested:
Creamy Sweet Potato Noodles
Serves Four
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes, spiralized or julienne peeled
- 1/2 cup cashew nuts, soaked for at least 2 hours in filtered water
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic
- Squeeze of lemon
- Salt and white pepper to taste
- Vegetable broth, as needed
Directions
- Drain cashews and blend cashews with nutritional yeast, garlic, lemon, salt and pepper.
- Bring sauce to simmer in a sauté pan and fold in noodles. Cook at medium heat until tender, adding vegetable broth as needed.
Enjoy!
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That’s the second time today I’ve seen sweet potato noodles! They don’t look terribly appealing, but I know they will be delicious. I LOVE salmon and Im always looking for new ways to make it. Thanks for the recipes!
Love this! Salmon is by FAR my favorite fish to eat. I don’t make it at home often, but will soon be moving into a bigger place which will make fish-cooking more feasible. This one will be on my list! 🙂
I need to try this! Thank you!
I honestly don’t usually like Salmon or any fish for that matter, but this looks so good! I am going to have to give it a shot!!
I may have to get one of those spiralizer gadgets to try making the noodles, but I can’t like the nutritional yeast, I think it’s an aquired taste. I just haven’t aquired it yet 🙂
Oooooh that salmon though. Oh my, that sounds/looks so so good!!
it’s super easy, too!! 🙂
Holy cow. Excuse my while my mouth waters! This looks amazing! I used to make salmon ALL.THE.TIME. But it’s been awhile so looks like I’m due for a new recipe!
This looks delicious! I love Salmon and Coconut butter!
The sweet potato noodles sounds delicious, will have to try for sure!
I’ve never tried sweet potato noodles before, they sound really really good. Might need to make this 🙂
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YUM that salmon sounds really good– and I actually have all the ingredients! well, butter instead of ghee and no capers. But still! Might have to try that soon! 🙂
One word for this post: YES.
I wish there was a thumbs up emoji on my keyboard to use to respond to this comment. 🙂
I’ve never had coconut butter, but I love coconut and I love salmon, so I totally want to try this! And the sweet potato noodles look fantastic. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I make salmon at least once a week so I’m super happy you shared this! Thank you!
Yum! Totally making this salmon.
I’m definitely try this! I think I might even go crazy and finally try out ghee.
Those sweet potato noodles look amazing! I have been using spaghetti squash lately, in place of pasta, to increase my veggie intake but sweet potatoes would be a nice change.
A veggie spiralizer is on my must-get list!!
we tried zucchini noodles for the first time last week and i was pleasantly surprised by how much we liked them!
I haven’t tried zucchini noodles but I LOVE zucchini so I am sure I would love them!
Wow this looks incredible! I love coconut butter AND salmon so.. this must be magical!!
Thanks so much for sharing. I’ve been wondering how you made those sweet potato noodles. Salmon + coconut butter sounds like a winner for sure!
I just recently discovered your blog, and I’m so glad that I did! I love reading all of your posts, and this dish looks so yummy!
so glad you found me! thanks for reading!! <3
I love the Paleo diet. I’ve been following a paleo/primal diet for a year and a half, and I love how I’m full, happy, and no longer dealing with blood sugar spikes. I’ll have to try this recipe soon 🙂
Sweet potato noodles?!! I am so on board!! Mmmmm 🙂
I never cook salmon but I always want to eat it! Maybe I should try out this recipe!
SUCH A TEASE!!!!!!! Ughhhhhh salmonnnn is my BOYFRIEND lol! He’s looking extra sexy in this photo shoot!
I have a nomination for something that you might possibly loving by Friday. THIS great video of a high school teacher dancing with his whole school! He’s so good!! (And I love coconut oil!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUEg7kd6Cg
i saw this!! too cute!
What kind of coconut butter do you use? I’ve seen it but I’ve never bought any. We love Salmon at our house to and we want to start eating more fish.
Oh this is so fun! Here’s my list:
-Coffee- any time of day! It’s not the caffeine fix I need, but my mother definitely instilled a straight up love of drinking coffee in me!
-throw blankets- especially super soft ones
-anything with cupcake or pancakes on it (no lie I have a pair of cupcake sleep shorts, and a keychain of a stack of pancakes!)
-perfectly smooth and trimmed fingernails (doesn’t happen very often)
-creeks, streams, little ponds and other hidden little bodies of water (this one’s just weird, but I love discovering them!)
Oh my goodness my computer just backed me up to the wrong post! My bad everyone…
Looks like a delicious recipe and will be giving it a try this wekend.
I made the salmon a couple weeks ago when I was doing the 21 day sugar detox and it was amazing. I’m a huge fan of coconut butter and loved the savory/sweet combo with salmon. Thanks for sharing!