smoked salmon pasta

This pasta dish is a regular dinner on a week night. You know those nights where you’ve 15 minutes to get a meal on the table before everyone starts crying with hunger – yes we all have those nights during the week! This meal takes as long to put on the table as it does to cook a pan of pasta. It also happens to be my children’s favourite pasta dish and one they have scoffed without complaint since they were toddlers (yes, even the fussy one!). It also has the added bonus of getting more oily fish into the weekly diet!

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Serves

Ingredients

300g dried pasta
50g butter
1 bunch of spring onions (sliced)
2 cloves garlic (crushed)
180 ml dry white wine
300 ml sour cream
200g smoked salmon (cut into ribbons)
salt & pepper

Directions


Place the pasta of your choice in a pan of salted boiling water and cook as per packet instructions to al-dente. Drain the pasta, leaving a little of the cooking liquor, and leave to the side the sauce is ready.

Meanwhile, over a medium heat, melt the butter in a large frying pan and add half the spring onions and all the garlic, saute gently for a minute then add the white wine to the pan. Increase the heat and reduce the wine by two-thirds.

Add the sour cream to the pan, stir to combine then add the smoked salmon, the remaining spring onion and the cooked pasta to the pan. If the sauce is too thick add a little of the pasta cooking liquid. Season with salt and pepper and serve immediately.

Note

You can substitute the sour cream with either double cream or crème fraiche if you have that to hand.