Pasta with Lemon Salmon Recipe

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Pasta with Lemon Salmon Recipe

Pasta with Lemon Salmon

Pasta with Lemon Salmon. Place half of the lemon rounds on prepared baking sheet, place salmon on top, then top salmon with remaining lemon rounds. Add the reserved water, the pasta, salmon, parsley and salt. Cook the spaghetti according to packet instructions and set aside. Baked Lemon Butter Salmon Pasta is a fuss free, restaurant quality meal! Salmon is my favourite fish, so I'm always looking for new ways to use it in recipes. To make Pasta with Lemon Salmon you need 6 ingredients and 6 steps easily.

The ingredients needed to make Pasta with Lemon Salmon:

125 g of salmon fillet (fresh or frozen) / 4½ oz .
75 g of pasta dried (any type – optional) / 2½ oz .
50 g of peas frozen / 2 oz .
½ teaspoon of basil dried *
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
1½ tablespoons of low fat crème fraîche

Steps to make Pasta with Lemon Salmon:

Put the pasta in a saucepan of boiling water to cook for 12 minutes (or as directed for the chosen pasta). Add the peas to the boiling water after 7 minutes, ensure the water returns to the boil.
Meanwhile mix the lemon juice, crème fraîche and basil in a pan and set aside.
With about 5 minutes cooking time for the pasta, microwave the salmon for 2 minutes or 3 minutes if frozen. Check that it cooked through or cook further (remember if more than one serving cooking time will increase significantly).
Flake the salmon into big chunks into the crème fraîche and heat the pan until just boiling. Take of the heat.
Test the pasta to ensure it is cooked to taste then strain the pea pasta mix and add to the saucepan containing the other ingredients and gently stir to mix and cover the pasta with the lemony crème fraîche.
Serve in a warmed bowl.

Cook the salmon: The salmon for this creamy pasta is simply seared before being flaked into the sauce. Pat skin-on salmon fillets dry with paper towels then season generously with salt and pepper and drizzle with a few teaspoons of olive oil. Season salmon fillet with salt and pepper and place on a foil lined baking sheet. Meanwhile, in a large pot of boiling water, cook pasta according to package directions. This Pan Seared Salmon with Creamy Lemon Pasta is a perfect date night dinner.

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