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Smoked Salmon and Asparagus Pasta 

This is so easy it feels like cheating, but it really packs a burst of great flavour. The entire thing can be cooked in one pan and the sauce just makes itself at the end with the salmon cooking slightly just in the heat of the pasta to give you a lovely almost hot smoked salmon texture.  It sounds very simple and it is, but the choice of ingredients all really complement each other and taste quite complex so anyone you are feeding it to is unlikely to guess how easy it was.

 

Just keep them out of the kitchen while you do it to maintain the illusion that everything we are cooking takes effort

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For choice of pasta I use pappardelle as the sauce is quite sticky so you can use a flat pasta without it falling off every time you lift some off the plate but any pasta will work

Ingredients

Serves 2

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  • 150g pappardelle or other pasta

  • 100g smoked salmon

  • 100g asparagus

  • 120g cream cheese

  • 2 tbsp lemon juice

  • 10g dill

  • salt and black pepper

Method

Add the pasta to salted boiling water, bring to a boil then leave to simmer for as long as the packet says. In the case of the pappardelle I use about 12 mins. But we are going to add the asparagus in 5 mins before the end to cook in the same water so make a note, in this case 7 mins in.

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While it's going chop the asparagus into thumbnail length pieces (1/2 inch) and pick all the leaves of the dill just to save you a bit of time later.

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When you get to 5 mins before the end throw the asparagus in the pan with the pasta and leave it for the last bit so that they cook together. Then once done drain them and return them to the pan off the heat, there is no more cooking to do here.

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Tear up your smoked salmon into small bits while you add it to the hot pasta and asparagus. I don't bother cutting it up as I think it looks better if it's all different shapes and sizes. Now tear up the dill a bit as you add that in. Then add your lemon juice followed by the cream cheese and a really good couple of turn of black pepper. Give that all a stir around and you are done.

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Just don't tell anyone how easy it was

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