Pasta With Smoked Salmon, Peas & Herb Pesto
Recipe: #31916
April 29, 2019
Categories: Salmon, Italian, No Eggs, Herbs, Italian Dinner, Salmon Dinner, more
"From our weekday newspaper The West Australian. Times are estimated. Since posting I have made and enjoyed though I had to use a different pasta as I could not find strozzapreti so used twisted and used a pesto that I have previously made which is similar to the one that is posted here."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (215 g)
- Calories 616.6
- Total Fat - 24.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.7 g
- Cholesterol - 18.8 mg
- Sodium - 586.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 80.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 11.9 g
- Sugars - 0.2 g
- Protein - 21 g
- Calcium - 122.3 mg
- Iron - 2.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 15.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling, salted water for about 6 minutes, or until just tender and add the peas and cook for a further 2 minutes, or until pasta and peas and tender and then drain and then return to the pan and cover to keep warm.
Step 2
Meanwhile, made the pesto - place capers, parmesan, parsley, dill and garlic in a food processor and process until chopped and then add oil and season with salt and pepper and process until combined.
Step 3
Roughly break salmon into pieces and add salmon and pesto to pasta and toss to combine.
Step 4
Serve pasta with parmesan and lemon wedges.
Tips
No special items needed.