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Instant Pot Salmon With Pesto

Course: dinner, lunch
Keyword: seafood, salmon, dinner, lunch, easy seafood, pesto
Servings: 2
Author: Mary

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 salmon fillet, to fit your pot (cut in half if too big) about 1 inch at thickest point fresh or frozen, skin on or off
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 tsp each Pesto sauce + fresh lemon juice (adjust amount according to your filet size) mixed together in small bowl
  • 2 slices lemon cut in half

Instructions

  • Pour water into pot, add bay leaf and trivet.
    Lay salmon skin side down on trivet.
    Season with salt and pepper, spread pesto/ lemon mixture over fish and top with lemon slices.
  • Lock on lid, turn pressure valve on lid to Sealing.
    Choose "pressure cook" setting and set timer for 6 min (if your fish is thicker add another minute to cook time)
  • When done, press cancel and do a quick release of pressure by carefully turning pressure valve to Venting.Once pressure pin is down, open lid and lift trivet with fish out of the pot.
  • If you fillet had a skin, separate it from fish by running a spatula underneath it.  Serve your beautiful salmon over rice, couscous, veggies, a salad...your pick!

Notes

*you can also add a few small potatoes in with the fish, cook together using above instructions.
*adjust cooking time of fish according to thickness rather than size or number of fillets, a thicker one will need another 1-2 minutes. Also, it's totally ok in this recipe to close the lid and pressure cook another minute or 2 if fish is not done to your liking.