Serving Suggestions: Side: The rich salmon and the cream in this sauce means this creamy lemon salmon pasta is the perfect dish for serving with something fresh.
We would suggest a parsley salad.
Simply mix lettuce leaves with plenty of fresh flat leaf parsley and a simple lemon and olive oil dressing.
Ingredients of Pasta with Lemon Salmon
- You need 125 g of salmon fillet (fresh or frozen) / 4½ oz ..
- Prepare 75 g of pasta dried (any type - optional) / 2½ oz ..
- Prepare 50 g of peas frozen / 2 oz ..
- Prepare ½ teaspoon of basil dried *.
- It's 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
- It's 1½ tablespoons of low fat crème fraîche.
Pasta with Lemon Salmon step by step
- 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..
Make the lemon butter sauce (see below for instructions). Serve the salmon over the pasta with the lemon butter sauce drizzled on top. Yeap, best ever lemon butter salmon pasta. Spray small rimmed baking pan with nonstick spray. Baked Lemon Butter Salmon Pasta is a fuss free, restaurant quality meal!
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