Pesto Baked Salmon Recipe

pesto

🥗Healthier: spinach pesto

💰Cheaper: homemade basil pesto

Spinach pesto reduces calories while maintaining flavor.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated mozzarella

Nutritional yeast adds a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Preheat the oven to 400°F.

Spiralize the zucchini into noodles. Press the zucchini noodles between two paper towels to get some of the moisture out of the zoodles.

Toss the zucchini noodles with 2 tablespoons pesto. Divide the zucchini noodles between two foil baskets.

Place the salmon on top of the zucchini noodles, then spread 1 tablespoon of pesto on each salmon filet.

Add the cherry tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, black pepper and basil to a large bowl and toss.

Spread the cherry tomatoes around the salmon in the foil baskets.

Place the foil baskets on a rimmed baking sheet and into the oven for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve.

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