Cheesy Peasy Salmon Pasta

 

   If you love pasta as much as I do and you wanna try a new recipe, you're in the right place:) Let me show you a delicious way to marry salmon, asparagus, peas and pasta :D I prepared the recipe from the "Yum and yummer" book written by Greta Podleski, but I tweaked the cooking cream and the quantity of lemon juice because ours wasn't saucy enough and I don't know about you, but I like all my pastas SAUCYYYY!!!

Ingredients for 2 servings:

-  170g uncooked bow-tie pasta

- 1 cup chopped fresh asparagus

- 3/4 cup frozen peas

- 2 tsp butter or olive oil

- 2 tsp minced garlic

~ 400 ml of light cooking cream

- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parm cheese and extra for serving

- 1 Tbsp minced fresh dill

- lemon juice from a lemon

- 1 tsp grated lemon zest

- aprox. 150g cooked salmon, cut into chunks

- freshly ground black pepper

! Important note: respect the indicated veggie quantities (I'll explain why below)

Steps:

1. Cook the pasta according to the package directions and add the asparagus and the peas during the last 3 minutes of cooking time.

2. While the pasta is cooking, prepare the sauce. Heat the butter in a pan over medium heat until it's frothy. Add the garlic and cook it until it's golden (about 1 min). Be careful not to burn it!

3. Add the cooking cream to the pan and then increase the heat to medium-high. Cook and stir until the mixture bubbles. Add the cheese, the dill, the lemon juice and the lemon zest. Mix well. 

4. Add the salmon to the pan and cook it almost completely. 

5. Drain the pasta and the veggies and add half of them to the sauce. I recommend to first see if half of it is enough to feed 2. (I didn't respect the exact measurements for the peas and the asparagus and I think I put in too many veggies because I ended up with a double recipe and I wish I had only added half of it in the sauce :) ) Add more cooking cream if it's not too saucy.

6. Mix all the ingredients and serve immediately with freshly ground black pepper and extra Parm cheese on top :) Bon appetit!