Garlic Lime Salmon with Lime Mayo

The other day I made a meal inspired by a recipe that I found on SCDrecipe.com: Lime and Garlic Salmon with Lime Mayonnaise. I served it with steamed broccoli and cauliflower, and it was all rather tasty!

As for the salmon, I adapted the original recipe and sort of combined it with the tutorial on How to Pan Fry Salmon on eHow.com. The following is more or less what I did:

Garlic Lime Salmon with Lime Mayo Serves 2

Ingredients

GARLIC SALMON

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 large salmon filet
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

LIME MAYONNAISE

• 1/2 cup mayo (150G) (I used Trader Joe's prepared mayo, but you could also make your own)
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped dill

Directions

1. Combine garlic, lime juice, salt and pepper and rub/coat salmon with this mixture.
2. Drizzle olive oil over the top and bottom of the salmon fillet, rubbing it into the meat. Let rest 5 minutes.
3. Preheat your frying pan over high heat until droplets of water "dance" on the metal, then turn the heat down to medium.
4. Place butter into the frying pan and allow to melt.
5. Add the salmon to the hot butter in center of the pan.
6. Let sizzle for 2 minutes, then use your tongs to loosen the fillet from the pan to avoid the flesh from sticking (unless using a non-stick pan)
7. Cook the salmon for 5 minutes on each side, then check for doneness by inserting a tooth pick or paring knife into the center of the fillet and pulling it out. If it comes out clean, the salmon is ready.
8. Combine all Lime Mayonnaise ingredients.
9. Serve salmon topped with lime mayo.