Salmon is one of the most popular fishes consumed by people today. Go to a restaurant that offers seafood and it is guaranteed that salmon will be on the menu; many steakhouses even offer this specific fish with their meats. Salmon can be cured, baked, broiled, steamed, and in this recipe, smoked. I personally love smoked foods: smoked duck, any smoked fish, smoked mushrooms...so delicious! Today I've prepared a smoked salmon pasta with a light cream sauce, asparagus, and tomatoes for one delicious meal!
Smoked Salmon Pasta With A Light Cream Sauce
Ingredients
- 8 ounces linguini
- 2 tablespoon oil
- ½ onion chopped
- ½ cup asparagus cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 medium tomatoes chopped
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 5 ounces smoked salmon cut into large chunks
- ⅓ cup dry white wine
- ⅓ cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Fill a large pot with salted water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the pasta and cook for 8-10 minutes or until al dente. Drain the pasta and rinse in cold water to stop it from cooking. If you are preparing just the noodles ahead of time, drizzle oil on the pasta and mix, to prevent them from sticking to one another.
- Use the same pot for the sauce. Heat over medium heat and add the 2 tablespoon oil. Add the chopped onion and asparagus and saute until the onion becomes translucent about 2-3 minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes and garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Add the salmon and white wine and simmer for 1 minute.
- Add the cooked pasta, heavy cream, and lemon juice. Stir well to combine and simmer for 2 minutes. Top with grated Parmesan cheese and season the pasta with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
**Helpful tips and common mistakes
Most smoked salmon pasta recipes ask for you to finely chop or cut the salmon into small pieces. The problem I have with this is that smoked salmon easily flakes apart so if you finely chop it, the salmon will disappear in the dish. I like to cut large chunks so you can have large pieces of fish in the pasta, and if it breaks apart (which it will), it's not a problem since they were big pieces to begin with.
Once you start to prepare the sauce, it is a quick process so have all of your ingredients ready including the onions, garlic, tomatoes, and asparagus. If you're not a fan of asparagus, swap it out for peas, fennel, leeks, or even spinach.
Alternatively, you can cook the sauce separately. Simply saute the onions and garlic as you would in the original recipe. Add the white wine, heavy cream, salt and pepper, and lemon juice. Let it come to a boil. Taste and season accordingly and there is your sauce! When you are ready, add the pasta, salmon, and cheese. If the sauce is a little dry you can save some of the water from when you cooked the pasta and add it to the sauce.
Serve this smoked salmon pasta with a fresh salad and some homemade garlic bread and you have yourself one fantastic meal! This dish is the perfect balance of creamy and bright, unlike other pasta dishes that make you want to take a nap afterward. Easy to make and all in all a great dish!
For more pasta inspiration check out this sun-dried tomato pesto pasta with burrata!
Patty
Hi! 🙂 Just wanted to share that I made this for dinner last night and it was really so good! I used a pork bouillon though instead of white wine, removed the peas and added chopped fresh basil after tossing the noodles in the sauce. Great recipe! Trying your Pad Thai recipe tonight 🙂
xo Patty
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Christine Ma
Glad to hear it! Hope your pad thai comes out just as good!
Paige C
This looks wonderful! We picked up some smoked salmon from our farmer's market this week, and I definitely want to try this!
cma0425
Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did!
Paige C
It was delicious! I added in brussels sprouts rather than tomato and peas just because I had them from the market, which worked really well too!
cma0425
Ooh I should try it with brussels next time!
david dunne
i used farfalle pasta instead of linguine pasta, just salmon instead of smoked salmon, lime instead of lemon and grated red cheddar instead of parmesan and didnt use any wine. didnt know what a quarts was, so i used 4 cups of water instead. im sure your version was delicious, im gonna make it exactly like that at the weekend, but let me tell you, the version i made was unbelievably nice. derived from yours of course, so i cant take any credit for it. so what does the wine do for it? i never cooked with alcohol before.
cma0425
It's adds the flavor of the wine to the pasta. The alcohol cooks out so you're just left with the wine flavor.
Kamila
I just made it for dinner and it was so delicious, we could n't stop eating)) My husband said it is a star dinner!). Thanks so much for recipe!!!!
cma0425
Woohoo so glad it was a success!
Lerato Moree
DELICIOUS - Make this regularly for family! They absolutely love it! Would like to try more of your recipes.
cma0425
So glad you enjoy this dish! This is definitely one of my favorites 🙂
A
When to add the peas tho??
cma0425
Oops sorry about that! You add the peas when you add the pasta, heavy cream, lemon juice, salt and pepper in step 4.