Salmon Pasta
Salmon pasta is a simple, full-flavoured dish that brings together pasta - often tagliatelle, spaghetti or penne - and salmon, usually smoked or as fresh fillets. It is generally finished with a creamy sauce built on cream, lemon, dill or chives, and sometimes lifted with garlic or shallots.
Ingredients
- 1 salmon fillet
- crème fraîche
- spinach to be cooked beforehand
- cherry tomatoes, halved
- paprika
- Parmesan
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- butter
- 1 glass pasta cooking water
Method
- Cook the pasta (hold back a glass or two of the cooking water). Then set the pasta aside.
- Dust both sides of the salmon with paprika.
- In a pan with a little olive oil, cook the salmon for 4 minutes on each side over medium heat. Then set aside.
- In the same pan, over medium heat, add the minced garlic clove and a knob of butter.
- Add the cherry tomatoes along with a little tomato paste.
- Pour in the pasta water and stir.
- Add a spoonful of crème fraîche and some Parmesan.
- Add the spinach you cooked earlier.
- Let the sauce thicken.
- Slide the salmon into the sauce to warm it back through.
- Plate the salmon.
- Now add the pasta to the sauce. Toss to coat.
- Plate up and serve.
