Cooking salmon in the slow cooker produces perfectly cooked salmon with minimal effort. With just a few ingredients, this recipe is both healthy & easy.
You knew you could make salmon the slow cooker right? You can pretty much make anything in the slow cooker in my opinion including fish.
I recently got this beautiful king salmon from Sizzlefish and being so pretty I didn’t want to add too many other ingredients to it.
I kept the instructions vague by listing 1-2 lbs of salmon. It’s really however much your slow cooker will fit. For this one, I used my 3.5-quart fit a little under a pound so I ended up using approximately 3/4 lb of Sizzlefish‘s king salmon.
If you want to use more, you can layer your salmon by lining the slow cooker with a piece of parchment paper, adding your salmon, and then adding another piece of parchment paper with more salmon on top. Like stacking the salmon in rows. If you don’t feel confident doing that then leave it at 1 row for now.
You can spray your slow cooker with cooking spray or you can line your slow cooker with parchment paper of aluminum foil.
PrintSlow Cooker Lemon & Dill Salmon
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 mins
- Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients
- 1-2 lb salmon
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- Handful of fresh dill
- 1 lemon, sliced
- Salt & pepper to taste
- 1 tsp extra-virgin olive oi
Instructions
- Spray slow cooker generously with cooking spray or line with parchment paper.
- Rub salmon with olive oil then season with salt, pepper, garlic and fresh dill.
- Add salmon to the slow cooker.
- Top with lemon slices.
- Cook HIGH 1 hour or LOW 2.
Nope, no water is needed. I understand this is still a hard concept for some people to swallow. So while I did not use any water, if it makes you feel more comfortable then go ahead and add 2-4 tablespoons of water into the slow cooker before you add the salmon down. If your slow cooker heats on the higher side then I actually recommend using the water but again it’s not necessary; it won’t change the taste whether you use the water or not.
My salmon always seems to cook in less than an hour. The white stuff you see on the salmon is its ‘sweat’. It’s totally normal and fine to eat if you want. I always scrape it off.
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Hi Shannon, just stumbled across your blog today. Love the slow cook recipes. I’m new to the slow cook world. Any thought of adding nutritional info such as calorie count, sugar, carbs and fat count to the end of the recipe for those of us who have to count such things. I am gonna try the Slow Cooker Jerk Chicken recipe this weekend.
Hi Donna! Thanks so much for stopping by. I actually have a nutritional info plug-in that’s I’ve been too lazy to implement. Seeing this comment is the swift kick I needed. Stay tuned, nutritional info will be added by this weekend. Hope you enjoy some of the recipes the jerk chicken is a personal favorite:-)
Hello Shannon.
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Thanks for writing about slow cookware recipe.
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Thank you!
I love this idea! And your blog! I will let you know how mine turns out 🙂
Thank you so much! Definitely keep me posted on how yours is! xShannon
In the wintertime, my go to quick recipe in the slow Cooker is either a whole chicken seasoned with herbs or chicken breasts with mixed vegetables and brown rice.
Hi Shannon,
Thanks for the Post, about “SALMON WITH LEMON”
I likes your recipe very much,
cant wait to taste SALMON WITH LEMON.
Good day.
😉