🌟 Why You’ll Love This Recipe
This slow cooker lemon butter salmon is the perfect mix of effortless cooking and elegant flavor. It’s one of those meals that feels fancy but requires almost no hands-on time.
- ✔️ Set-it-and-forget-it cooking
- ✔️ Ultra tender, flaky texture
- ✔️ Bright lemon + rich butter flavor
- ✔️ No oven, no mess, no stress
The parchment method gently steams the salmon, locking in moisture and creating a silky, buttery sauce that tastes like it came from a restaurant.
🛒 Ingredients
- 1½–2 lbs salmon fillet (cut into 4 pieces)
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp garlic powder or 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter (melted)
- 1 large lemon (thinly sliced)
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp olive oil (optional)
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley (chopped)
- Parchment paper
- Cooking spray or extra butter
