Just try and stop us from making this one. has crowned this as the best salmon pasta recipe. And just looking at the ingredients — salmon, pasta, cream, parmesan cheese — we’re coming round to that idea.Remember, if you choose to absolutely drown your pasta in cheese, then the macros will differ, but at the end of the day, what’s a pasta dish without copious amounts of cheese?
Servings: Serves 4
Ingredients
- 400 g salmon fillet
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp garlic granules
- 2 tsp Italian herbs
- 1 tsp garlic paste
- 220 g dried macaroni
- 250 ml light cream
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 20 g parmesan
Instructions
First, put your pasta on to cook according to the instructions on the packet.
While pasta is cooking, prepare your salmon by slicing it into small chunks, spraying with low-calorie cooking spray and sprinkling with paprika, garlic, Italian herbs and salt.
Pan fry the salmon until cooked through.
Once the salmon is cooked, remove it from the pan. Add garlic, tomato puree, Italian herbs and paprika to the pan.
When those ingredients are combined, stir through your cream and add a bit of pasta water.
Then add some parmesan and your pasta. Stir until the pasta is evenly coated in the sauce.
Add the salmon to the pasta, serve up and dig in.
| calories | 499 |
| totalFat | 21 |
| totalCarbohydrates | 45 |
| protein | 27 |
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After completing an internship with Myprotein, Emily returned to university to finish her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Marketing.
With experience in lifestyle writing, Emily aims to entertain and educate through her work. Her focuses include recipes, real and inspiring stories, and working with writers to help provide easy-to-digest evidence-based research.
Her work on recipes has been previously featured in The Supplement magazine, with a particular focus on high-protein, nutritious meals, plus advice on how to properly fuel your body.
Outside of work, Emily’s top priority is food. She’s a self-professed star baker and a connoisseur of all things baked. In her spare time, she’s either cooking up a storm, our looking out for the opportunity to try out Manchester’s newest restaurants. But as a huge fan of carbs, if it’s not pasta or pasta-adjacent, she’s not interested.
If she’s not in the kitchen, she’s tucked up with a book for an early night, or you’ll find her in the gym working up a sweat. Afterall, all those carbs require quite the appetite.
