Sheet Pan Blueberry Salmon and Veggies is a nutrient-rich dinner that’s ready in 25 minutes and bursting with flavor! All it takes is a few simple real food ingredients, and you’ll have a complete meal that has the whole family eagerly waiting around the dinner table.
Why You’ll Love This Blueberry Salmon
There’s nothing better than a sheet pan recipe! Whether you’re whipping up a batch of sheet pan chocolate protein pancakes or honey mustard chicken thighs with Brussels sprouts, there’s always something that will hit the spot! Plus, they’re a lifesaver when it comes to time-saving meal prep.
Wanna know the only thing that could make them even better? Superfoods like the ingredients used in this sheet pan blueberry salmon! Our new go-to recipe, it’s:
- Packed full of vitamins, antioxidants, omega fats, protein, and, of course, flavor!
- Baked on a single pan for minimal prep time and easy clean-up.
- Ready in just 25 minutes.
- Great for feeding a hungry crowd.
What You’ll Need
We take advantage of fresh produce for optimal nutrients and vibrant color in this blueberry salmon recipe! Here’s everything you’ll need:
- Wild Caught Salmon – Rich in Omega 3 Fatty Acids (DHA/EPA) and one of the best fish choices you can consume to help reduce stress and fight anxiety. Atlantic Salmon in particular is rich in essential nutrients like Vitamin D, iodine, and selenium. Plus, it’s super tasty!
- Basil – Sweet and slightly spicy, this pungent herb also has antibacterial properties thanks to its flavonoids that help protect the body from illness and infection.
- Blueberries – While all berries are nutritious, blueberries in particular are the highest in terms of the levels of antioxidants they contain. Not to mention, they’re super sweet and full of extra health benefits.
- Garlic – To kill off those vampires! Kidding. Maybe. In all seriousness, garlic adds bold, pungent flavor to all our favorite meals and contains certain plant compounds that boost your immune system.
- Brussels Sprouts – An undervalued vegetable, Brussels sprouts are not only super tasty but are also a great source of fiber and are high in Vitamin K 1 and K2, which are hugely important for bone health.
Ingredient Swap: Feel free to swap out the Brussels sprouts with another vegetable with a similar roasting time such as cauliflower, broccoli, or carrots!
- Seasonings and Natural Flavor Boosters – Olive Oil/Vinegar, sea salt, and black pepper help enhance the rest of the ingredients and create a caramelized, roasted flavor.
- Lemon Juice and Slices – Hello VITAMIN C and did you know lemon and sea salt together help with indigestion? Ya, you’re welcome. Plus, the acidity helps cut through some of the heaviness of the fat for a well-rounded dish.
See…We told you this blueberry salmon is super easy, super healthy, and super tasty. That’s it. Now all that’s left is to serve it up!
How to Make Blueberry Salmon
If you’ve never made a sheet pan recipe, prepare for your life to be changed. Seriously! If you love ‘em as much as we do, we don’t need to explain. You already know. Watch how easily it’s done below!
- Prepare. Clean the salmon and Brussels sprouts (separately), and place them on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet. Don’t forget to season them generously with salt!
- Make the Blueberry Topping. Add the blueberries to a small bowl, and mash them with a fork. You don’t want them to be complete mush, but you do want to release a fair amount of their juices! Add the olive oil, salt, pepper, basil, garlic, and balsamic vinegar, and stir to combine.
- Coat the Salmon and Veggies. Drizzle extra olive oil over the ingredients, and spread the blueberry mixture on top. Place the lemon slices over everything, and sprinkle with extra pepper for a little kick.
- Bake. Place the sheet pan in the oven, and bake until the veggies are tender and the salmon is pink. You’ll know it’s done when a meat thermometer can be inserted and reaches an internal temperature of 125° Fahrenheit.
Pro-Tip: For extra crispy Brussels sprouts and salmon skin, switch your oven to broil for the last 1-2 minutes of cooking. Just be super careful not to overcook your salmon!
Serving Suggestions
The beauty of sheet pan recipes is that they’re complete meals all on their own! However, if you want to bulk this blueberry salmon up even more, try pairing it with side dishes like:
- Oven Roasted Leeks and Potatoes
- Quinoa
- Green Goddess Vegan Pasta Salad
- Cauliflower Sweet Potato Tots
And don’t forget to make a batch of vegan chocolate chip cookies or gluten-free cake balls for dessert!
How to Make Ahead and Store
This blueberry salmon recipe is best served right away while it’s still fresh. However, if you happen to have leftovers or want to prepare it in advance, it stores well.
Refrigerator: Once cooled, transfer your salmon to an airtight container, and keep it stored in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Freezer: If you can avoid it, we don’t recommend freezing this recipe as it will taste slightly fishier and have a softer texture once thawed. However, if necessary, it can be frozen for up to 3 months.
To Reheat: For the best results, warm your salmon and Brussels sprouts in the oven at 350° Fahrenheit until it is heated through.
More of Our Favorite
Gluten-Free Salmon Recipes
Looking for more easy ways to use salmon? Check out some of our favorite salmon dishes below!
Common Questions
Pan frying salmon creates a beautiful, crisp skin and is great for preparing one or two salmon fillets. However, when it comes to making a complete meal, we prefer to bake salmon as it’s a super hands-off recipe.
No, you don’t have to flip salmon over while it’s baking. The skin will get crisp without it!
No, the USDA warns against rinsing salmon or any raw meat or poultry before baking.
If you’ve ever noticed a little white film that comes out of your salmon, it’s just albumin! This is a harmless protein that solidifies as it cooks. It’s totally safe to eat and is actually good for you. However, if it weirds you out, you can totally scrape it off.
If you want to use a clean cloth or paper towels to pat the salmon dry, it can help the seasonings stick. However, it isn’t crucial for this blueberry salmon recipe.
Sheet Pan Blueberry Salmon Recipe
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
his Sheet Pan Blueberry Salmon and Veggies is a nutrient-rich dinner that’s ready in 25 minutes and bursting with flavor!
Ingredients
- 3 to 4 salmon fillets (4 to 5 ounces each or a 16 ounce fillet)
- 2 cups Brussels sprouts, quartered
- Kosher salt, divided
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- ¼ to ⅓ light olive oil, divided
- ¼ to ⅓ cup chopped fresh basil
- 3 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 cloves or 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- ¼ to ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 lemons, one juiced and one sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F. Place the salmon fillets on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Arrange the Brussels sprouts around the salmon. Generously sprinkle the salmon and Brussels sprouts with salt. Set aside.
- Add the blueberries to a medium-sized bowl and mash a few times with a fork. Stir in the olive oil, basil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, black pepper, and a dash of salt.
- Drizzle 2 to 3 Tablespoons olive oil over the salmon and Brussels sprouts. Spoon the blueberry mixture over the salmon fillets.
- Squeeze fresh lemon juice on top of the salmon and veggies. Place lemon slices on top of the veggies on the sheet pan.
- Place the salmon in the oven to bake for 15 minutes. Broil for 1 to 2 minutes for extra crispy Brussels sprouts, being cautious as to not to overcook the salmon. Remove from the oven and serve immediately.
- Store leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Notes
Storage Tips – The baked salmon fillets can be frozen for up to 3 months in an airtight container or plastic bag.
We use Sizzlefish salmon, which offers both Atlantic and wild-caught varieties.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Main
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 filet with topping
- Calories: 395
- Sugar: 6.6g
- Sodium: 316.1mg
- Fat: 28.1g
- Saturated Fat: 5.2g
- Carbohydrates: 12.4g
- Fiber: 2.8g
- Protein: 23.7g
- Cholesterol: 58.5mg
This was easy and delish!
So glad to hear!
Can the fish be substituted for tilapia or something similar? Salmon is so expensive! Excited to try this!
Hi Anna, great question! We are not sure tilapia would be the best substitute in this recipe (tilapia is best breaded and a little too fishy in this recipe plus it cooks a lot faster than the salmon). We have substituted the salmon with chicken thighs and it’s delicious. You may need to bake about 20 minutes (vs 15 min) or until the temperature of the chicken is at least 165F. Does that help? Keep us posted and let us know if you have further questions!
This was SO GOOD!! Such a great reset meal and the blueberries were the perfect touch of sweetness without use of refined/added sugar.
Thank you for the feedback Jelena! It’s a fav of ours too, especially when blueberries are in season. <3
Thank for sharing Lindsay
You’re very welcome! Thanks for stopping by.
Was so easy and delicious. Salmon came out perfectly cooked and I followed the directions to a T. Flavors were a great combo.
I’m SO happy to know you enjoyed it, Steph!
Made it again tonight! YUM
WOOHOO! Love that. Thanks Steph!
Is it possible to make this without the balsamic vinegar? I cannot have vinegar in any form. I usually just make stuff without, but not sure of the process of it here. Thanks.
Can you have lemon juice?
Pro tip – she has it on parchment paper in the picture. However, if you plan to broil it, don’t use parchment paper. Also, don’t follow the recipe super tired…or that pro tip won’t dawn on you until you are putting out a tiny fire around the edges of your sheet pan.🤣🤦♀️🤷♀️
*totally worth it through. This recipe is AMAZING!
So delicious and easy to make!
Thanks, Afton! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Lindsay, your dishes and way of your plating are too good. I fall in love with your dishes when I saw images on your blogs. You are too good.
Thank you!
This turned out absolutely divine. My husband and 2yo old ate up every little bit, and so did I and I typically HATE salmon! Thank you for giving us a delicious way to eat healthier. I’m curious to know, what other sides could I serve with this?
Oh I am so so glad! Love that someone loves salmon now!
Tooootally tripling the sauce to have a few nights a week! Love the recipe and the tips! My husband’s Aunt makes this, and it’s one of my favorite dishes. They are Cambodian.
So glad you love it!!
Always watch your content, lots of love all the way from England! 😀 I’ve also pre-ordered your book!
Your feedback helps me a lot, A very meaningful event, I hope everything will go well
love the idea of bringing blueberries into the mix on this dish. Thanks!
You’re welcome, Anna!
I love the idea of bringing blueberries into the mix on this dish.
Thanks, Anna! It really is so good!!
I doubt I will make it on my first try as I’m an really bad cook, but wish me luck!
Good luck Saiman! Let me know if you have any questions! Glad to help!
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Grilled salmon super food you share very delicious and attractive. I really like this dish.
Thank you!
I like really very much this presentation. Hoping to continue to share healthy super food recipes. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Made this last night and cannot quit thinking about it! It was perfect! Can’t wait for lunch!
Yaayy! So glad to hear that Kim! Enjoy!
I like it
Glad to hear!!
is the day we start making mistakes
I’m on a diet! I like Salad but Salads are so tricky to store ahead of time
Never liked fish. But when I had to change the food began to eat it for good. But what happened? Tastes have changed and now I eat Salmon with great pleasure. Thank you for this new recipe for me.
That’s what I love to hear!
You have a great blog – I would think your readership is very high
Looks really delicious, will try it out this weekend.
This recipe looks very delicious! Thanks
Made this with tilapia since that was a lot cheaper than salmon. The entire family agreed that this was well worth making again.
Oh yay! Glad it works with tilapia. Totally trying that!! Thanks Jess
Love this so much! It looks so fancy but easy to put together and it tastes delicious!
Right?! Totally easy and fancy-ish!
Could I make the sauce the night before? This looks amazing. Thanks so much!
love when I have everything in my fridge to try something new!
Awesome! Keep me posted Cody!
This looked so good I had to try it but I’m not sure my sauce came out quite right. I think in the future I would just do the blueberries, a little oil and vinegar, basil, and maybe some garlic salt or powder. The vinegar and garlic were a little strong for me. Also I would probably do the brussels separately because the sauce ran over to them and I like them with just oil s&p. Great combination of flavors though. Thanks for sharing!
Oh no! Really? Did the video help? This is one of our favorite recipes. What vinegar did you use?
Hi, You have introduced me to this nice recipe but unfortunately I am unable to find blueberries over here in my country due to winter now I will have to replace it with red one or add a frozen one. Indeed a fast cooking recipe in 25 mini for sure.
frozen should work just fine! Yay, keep me posted.
Great recipe! The baked salmon looks good and I look forward to making it. Make sure it is NOT Norwegian salmon. Norway has poisoned millions of unknowing people all over the world with their toxic seafood. Walmart, Costco, and other big supermarket chains continue selling this toxic seafood. The victims who eat the Norwegian seafood get miscarriages, strokes and cancer must.
Wow, Norwegian Salmon? I didn’t know this. It seems there’s so many toxic food items on the shelves nowadays that it gets confusing what to buy. I find myself trying to find a review of everything including food to see if there’s any negatives.
Amen to that. You can never be too careful!
This recipe looks delicious! I don’t have any blueberries on hand so I’m considering substituting them with red grapes.
Do you have any other berries? I think cranberry plum or blackberry would be delish
This was really good!
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Trying this tonight, and can already imagine that it will be wonderful! One little question: is it one lemon, juiced, and another for slicing? (My lemons, after being juiced, are not in any condition for slicing ~haha!)
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This looks amazing and is on my list for a try. Thank you. Love your site.
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Oh man- I just made this tonight and my husband and I LOVED it. We are foodies, living in Toronto, and both agreed it was restaurant quality. That blueberry compote was to die for. I have sibo, so making restaurant tasting food here and there for my husband and kids is now one of the things I love to do since we don’t eat out much 🙂 Not to mention I didn’t have to work for an hour+ to get those flavours, which is nice with two young kids at home.
Side note, my hubby came home with a migraine and was nauseous from it. He didn’t feel like eating much but when he tried it and was wowed he came back for seconds and was feeling so much better after the meal.
Thank you! Trying more of your recipes soon 🙂
oh yay!! I love this combo too! so so good. The blueberries truly make it. Thanks for the feedback Alicia
Thanks for sharing.I found a lot of interesting information here. A really good post, very thankful and hopeful that you will write many more posts like this one.
Thanks for your article! I have read through some similar topics! However, your post has given me a very special impression, unlike other posts. I hope you continue to have valuable articles like this or more to share with everyone!
Thank you so much for putting the Skip to Recipe button at the very top! As a foodie and a web developer, it drives me nuts to have to wade through pictures and ads to find the recipe!
That aside, this recipe looks super simple and yummy and I might try this out next week for my family that loves salmon!!
anytime! I totally understand. Google loves words and stories and I always want to be authentic with my readers, but I get that not everyone wants the 700 words of my life or nerdy nutrition. Haha!!
Wow – what an informative blog site – i need to spend more time here and intend to do so
This looks great, i’m making this tomorrow,! The only thing about this that made me roll my eye was the words “Super Food”, unless the food came from Supermans home planet,, it’s not super, just healthy!
LOL! I am a nutritionist so superfood is allowed. Kidding! But I am happy to go visit Super Man and get his approval. 😉
Keep me posted! I hope you enjoy it clint! I’ll call this recipe one pan BERRY AWESOME Salmon & Veggies for you.
Delicious! The husband agrees too. Thanks for a great supper tonight.
so glad! Thanks Jackie!
Awesome recipe, i love salmon gloop gloop!
Love love love one pan meals! And blueberries on top of salmon? Count me in!
Thank you for sharing them! I hope you will continue to have similar posts to share with everyone!
I ate it at the restaurant and enjoyed it. I tried many times but failed. Today saw your guide I learned a lot and drawn many useful things. I believe this time I will succeed. Thanks a lot!
I’m actually going to do this on a plank on my BBQ! That’s pretty supper I think, lol!
great idea! and haha, nice pun!
Yummy! I can’t wait to try it!
Yum! I love salmon and this seems like a great way to prepare it!
it’s one of our favs! Let me know if you try it Agness
My wife’s favourite is salmon, thank you for this, she absolutely loooves this!
wonderful! so glad viktor!
Fantastic! Cant wait to try this!
OMG!!!! This is my new favorite recipe. Thank you so much for sharing. My tastebuds are in love
wonderful!! I’m so glad!
Wow, this looks really delicious! My wife recently started to prepare food from your recipes and it turned out really great! I want to surprise her and try to make some yummy food from your blog as well. I doubt I will make it on my first try as I’m an really bad cook, but wish me luck!
oh this is super easy! i bet you can do Brian! Keep me posted!
Wow! These photos are absolutely stunning! I don’t even like salmon and I seriously want to run out and buy the ingredients to make this! Gorgeous!
Just you agree, for me you are an eternal god
Your food and photos are stunning. This salmon literally made my jaw drop!
thanks so much rachel!
This looks delicious! The next time we have guests over, this will definitely be on the menu!
keep me posted!
Can salmon get any better than this recipe? All the super foods means I’ll feel like super woman after I eat it! Stellar recipe Lindsay!
You are so super woman!
Your photos are absolutely stunning, Lindsay!! We make salmon all of the time and have never thought to pair it with blueberries?! Simply genius 🙂
Your photos are absolutely stunning, Lindsay!! We make salmon all of the time and have never thought to pair it with blueberries?! Simply genius 🙂
Thank you friend. You are too kind. YOu are one amazing photographer!
I love when I have everything in my fridge to try something new! I love the idea of bringing blueberries into the mix on this dish.
totally!! so simple and flavorful!
I don’t think I’d ever put blueberries together with salmon, but it looks delicious! And aren’t sheet pan dinners the best!
thanks Lisa!
Sheetpan meals are relatively new to me but yours is the most beautiful display of such that I have seen. I love your combination of salmon and vegetables with this one; beautifully and ever-so deliciously done!
Wow! These photos are absolutely stunning! I don’t even like salmon and I seriously want to run out and buy the ingredients to make this! Gorgeous!
I love one pan meals! And I love the addition of blueberries here! I haven’t seen this combination.
That is one beautiful meal of colors!!!!!
I loooove salmon with fruit. Fatty sweetness is a WIN. I’ll be right over. 😉
Shrimp and Blueberries are also a great combo! You already know that I love every single thing in here 😀 BRUSSELS. Balsamic goes with everything, in my opinion. Everything worth having, it is!
Woah! Blueberries and brusael sprouts- that is such a great combo! Never would have thought of that… delicious!
Blueberries on there?!!! That is so amazing and Im trying it! BTW, do you prefer to cook salmon in filets or by the whole “side” on the sheet pan?
It totally depends. When I have a compote like this, I like do do individual fillets because you can add more or less to each. Plus it is even spread. If it’s a glaze or a BBQ seasoning, a whole fillet is simple and great for a meal prep or salad. Then people can dress it up with more seasoning if they desire. The fillets are thicker, so more like a good steak. Haha, which i love.