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Creamy Dill Sauce for Salmon or Trout

By:Nagi
Published:12 Sep '16Updated:29 Jan '21
83 Comments
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Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! Creamy Dill Sauce for salmon or trout is made with sour cream so it’s light and refreshing, and loaded with lovely fresh dill and lemon flavours.

Clocking in at just 397 calories per serving, and that’s with extra sauce for dipping your veggies in!

Creamy Dill Sauce for Salmon or Trout - A simple, refreshing sauce that pairs beautifully with rich salmon. Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! www.recipeteineats.com

Everyone needs an arsenal of super quick meals in their back pocket. Fish with some kind of sauce is a great one because fish cooks so quickly.

Today I’m sharing a Creamy Dill Sauce which is no cook so it literally takes minutes to make. Just sour cream, mustard, lemon, garlic plus a good amount of fresh dill, and you have yourself a lovely fresh sauce. Delicious for dipping in bread and veggie sticks, and dolloping on salmon (or trout!).

Creamy Dill Sauce for Salmon or Trout - A simple, refreshing sauce that pairs beautifully with rich salmon. Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! www.recipeteineats.com

Creamy Dill Sauce for Salmon or Trout - A simple, refreshing sauce that pairs beautifully with rich salmon. Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! www.recipeteineats.com

Unlike many creamy sauces, Dill Sauce is not rich and heavy. It’s light and tangy so it goes really well with salmon and trout because they are both quite oily and rich.

Plus of course – dill. It’s one of the classic herb flavour pairings in this world. Tomato and basil. Rosemary and lamb. Salmon and dill. 👌🏼

Creamy Dill Sauce for Salmon or Trout - A simple, refreshing sauce that pairs beautifully with rich salmon. Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! www.recipeteineats.com

I’d describe this Creamy Dill Sauce as a less tangy version of tzatziki. If you use yoghurt instead of sour cream, it would actually taste quite similar to tzatziki. I prefer to make this with sour cream because I find it smoother.

I alternate freely between salmon and trout in my cooking as I find them quite similar, though I think trout is slightly juicier (in Australia). I actually cooked 4 trouts, and I have no idea why I failed to take a single photo of all 4 of them. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Actually, maybe it was because my subconscious realised that if I only photographed 2 trouts, then I’d have half the sauce leftover to dunk bread into while I was shooting? 🤔

Creamy Dill Sauce for Salmon or Trout - A simple, refreshing sauce that pairs beautifully with rich salmon. Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! www.recipeteineats.com

I served this with some bread and my lazy Zucchini Salad – I’ve popped the recipe in the notes. With these simple sides, this really is a complete meal you can get on the table in 15 minutes – without running around like a lunatic! – Nagi x

PS. More quick ways with salmon! Honey Garlic Salmon and Asian Glazed Salmon. Or for a variation of this creamy sauce, Salmon with Creamy Garlic & Herb Sauce. Then there’s this incredible Christmas Baked Salmon: Easy & Make-ahead, a super-easy and eye-catching Christmas (or anytime) centrepiece.

Also check out Japanese Salmon on my mother’s site, RecipeTin Japan. Don’t ask me to choose a favourite. I can’t!

PPS I made this Dill Sauce for salmon / trout, but it is also a fab dip for veggie sticks and bread. And you can thin it out more with lemon juice / milk, and use it as a salad dressing too!

Creamy Dill Sauce for Salmon or Trout - A simple, refreshing sauce that pairs beautifully with rich salmon. Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! www.recipeteineats.com

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Creamy Dill Sauce with Salmon or Trout - A simple, refreshing sauce that pairs beautifully with rich salmon. Dinner on the table in 15 minutes! www.recipeteineats.com

Creamy Dill Sauce with Salmon or Trout

Author: Nagi | RecipeTin Eats
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 5 mins
Total: 15 mins
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5 from 26 votes
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A fantastic quick meal! Dill Sauce is refreshing, rather than heavy as many "creamy" sauces can be, because it is made with sour cream. The slight acidity is a great pairing with salmon or trout which are quite rich and oily. I made this with trout.

Ingredients

Dill Sauce

  • 3/4 cup sour cream (1)
  • 2 tsp Dijon or hot English mustard (2)
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder or 1 small garlic clove , minced
  • 2 1/2 tbsp fresh dill , finely chopped
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 1 - 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp milk (or olive oil, for richness)
  • 1/4 - 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp white sugar

Fish

  • 1/2 - 1 tbsp oil
  • 4 salmon or trout fillets (125g / 4oz each)
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  • Mix the Dill Sauce ingredients together (Mix well to loosen the sour cream). Adjust consistency with milk and tartness with lemon juice. Set aside for 10 minutes if you can - if using fresh garlic, set aside for 20 min.
  • Pat fish dry with paper towel. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Heat oil in skillet over medium high heat. Place fish in skillet skin side down. Cook for 2 minutes, then flip and cook the other side for 1 1/2 minutes.
  • Remove from skillet onto serving plates. Serve with Dill Sauce on the side, garnished with fresh dill and lemon wedges if desired.

Recipe Notes:

1. You could use Greek Yoghurt instead of sour cream. It is slightly more tangy and low fat tends to be less creamy.
Low fat is fine but will be less creamy.
2. I like to use hot English mustard for a little kick. Alternatively you could use Dijon mustard + horseradish cream.
3. I served this with my lazy zucchini salad: Use a potato peeler to make long strips of zucchini and shave some parmesan. Toss with verjuice, olive oil, salt and pepper. Verjuice is made from unfermented grapes and is a very mild vinegar which makes it fantastic for really quick salad dressings because you don't need to tone down the acidity with other ingredients. Maggie Beer was the first to commercial produce verjuice, but other brands are now available in supermarkets in the vinegar section.
4. Nutrition per serving, assuming all the sauce is consumed. There is more sauce than needed, but I always make a little extra because it's nice to dip veggies and bread into the leftovers. 97 calories of the total is for the sauce.
If you use low fat rather than full fat sour cream, it reduces to 369 calories.creamy-dill-sauce-with-salmon

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 208gCalories: 397cal (20%)Carbohydrates: 4.2g (1%)Protein: 42g (84%)Fat: 22.8g (35%)Saturated Fat: 7.6g (48%)Cholesterol: 129mg (43%)Sodium: 305mg (13%)Potassium: 832mg (24%)Sugar: 1.1g (1%)Vitamin A: 450IU (9%)Vitamin C: 5.8mg (7%)Calcium: 170mg (17%)Iron: 4mg (22%)
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83 Comments

  1. cat says

    August 26, 2021 at 9:19 am

    where’s the zucchini salad recipe?? i don’t see it in notes!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      August 27, 2021 at 10:40 am

      Hi Cat – it’s there written in note 3. N x

      Reply
  2. ANDREA CAMP says

    July 21, 2021 at 11:04 am

    5 stars
    This is delicious! Followed the recipe as directed except I left out the lemon zest. Served with rice pilaf and fresh, steamed green beans. Serve this fish, you will be beloved.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      July 21, 2021 at 7:16 pm

      You may need to turn the oven up slightly – if it runs cool, the sauce will not caramelise and the meat stew slightly. N x

      Reply
  3. Erin McClelland says

    June 2, 2021 at 12:21 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious… I actually heated it up a bit… yummy either way!

    Reply
  4. ARLEN says

    January 20, 2021 at 9:05 am

    https://featherstonewinery.ca/product/featherstone-12-brix-verjus/

    GREAT LAZY SALAD!! USED
    THIS LOCAL VQA ONTARIO PRODUCT. FABULOUS

    Reply
  5. Bernadette says

    November 13, 2020 at 8:32 am

    5 stars
    Made this today and had with salmon. This was delicious, definitely a keeper. Thanks

    Reply
  6. Rachel says

    November 5, 2020 at 9:07 am

    5 stars
    I made this recipe using Mayo instead of sour cream to go on top of Salmon burgers. Omitted the milk too, to keep it thicker like a mayo. Everyone LOVED it. Very good!

    Reply
  7. Penny says

    June 11, 2020 at 5:47 pm

    5 stars
    Traditionally I have chopped boiled eggs in this sauce recipe, it works well with the fish. P.S I have recommended recipetineatsn to so many people, the recipes are fabulous

    Reply
  8. Mike says

    June 2, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    Nagi, if I become homeless as well and live out of a car will you feed as well? 😉
    Another lovely recipe – this is one of my go-to recipes now as I eat salmon more than any other meat.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      June 3, 2020 at 9:00 am

      There’s enough food for all!! N x

      Reply
  9. Dee says

    March 5, 2020 at 8:57 am

    5 stars
    Sorry, forgot rating! 5 stars!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      March 5, 2020 at 1:34 pm

      Thanks Dee!

      Reply
  10. Dee says

    March 5, 2020 at 8:55 am

    Perfect accompaniment with fish. I made it with Greek yogurt. Thanks Nagi for yet another amazing recipe!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      March 5, 2020 at 1:34 pm

      I’m so happy you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  11. Sali says

    February 4, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    Hello Nabi,

    Thanks for the awesome recipe as usual. I have a question please, you said we can thin the sauce and used it as a salad dressing so what type of salad do you recommend will go with this dressing?

    Reply
  12. Melinda says

    December 25, 2019 at 9:15 am

    5 stars
    Used dried dill, and 2/3 sour cream 1/3 plain yoghurt, and half a lime (= what I had at hand), and it was great. Really, this sauce became my favourite part of the dinner. Thank you for posting it, Nagi!

    Reply
  13. Connie says

    November 13, 2019 at 5:44 am

    Perfect with salmon or any fish. I will make it again!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      November 13, 2019 at 6:15 pm

      Yes definitely Connie!

      Reply
  14. Patricia R. says

    June 28, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    5 stars
    This was easy and delicious. I was looking for a sauce that didn’t have involve mayonnaise and this was the first recipe I came upon. Tonight I made it and it is a keeper. I left out the zest as I didn’t have any and I used the mustard I had on hand. No sugar, no milk, and that was it. Oh, I had to use dry dill, one teaspoon as I didn’t have fresh. Love this so much!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      June 28, 2019 at 6:48 pm

      Thanks so much for the feedback Patricia!!

      Reply
  15. Sandra Sneddon says

    March 13, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    I just made the creamy dill sauce was beautiful his long can you keep it in the fridge for

    Reply
  16. Amanda says

    March 9, 2019 at 9:38 am

    Hi! I was wondering if you could freeze the sauce, I’ve got an abundance od dill from my garden..

    Reply
  17. Monica says

    June 25, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    5 stars
    Tried the recipe for family dinner this weekend. Everyone enjoyed it. My aunt could not stop eating the sauce. She even had the sauce with rice.

    Reply
  18. Garth Dmyterko says

    June 25, 2018 at 3:29 pm

    5 stars
    Loved this recipe! So quick, easy. and delicious. Great on potatoes too! I hit the finished sauce with my immersion blender for 30 seconds to really mince the dill and I found it helped give it a saucier consistency. One more dish to clean but worth a try in my opinion

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      June 25, 2018 at 9:43 pm

      That’s terrific Garth! Great tip with the immersion blender! N x

      Reply
  19. Barb says

    June 18, 2018 at 4:28 pm

    5 stars
    I’ve made loads of your salmon dishes but never this one and I really don’t know why. Some of the others I’ve made several times or more. Since I had frozen fresh dill I thought I’d give it a whirl. WOW! WOW! WOW!

    It’s a must to make more than enough because it’s so darn good on steamed veges as well as salmon.
    I slathered it on everything, it’s really very tasty.

    Thanks Nagi.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      June 18, 2018 at 7:54 pm

      I’m pleased to hear this was enjoyed Barb! Thank you for letting me know! N x

      Reply
  20. Aimee says

    May 13, 2018 at 2:12 pm

    This is an amazing recipe! So wonderful. Just lovely and so delicious. I can’t say enough wonderful things.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      May 14, 2018 at 2:38 am

      Wonderful to hear Aimee! Thank you for letting me know you enjoyed this – N x

      Reply
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