Everyone needs quick but tasty food. A meal for times you don’t have the energy let alone the inclination to spend ages preparing and cooking a good tasty meal. But something that is a bit special.
That’s a lot of boxes to tick!
In our case it’s apres-ski food that requires minimal effort, in my current state that means 1 handed cooking.
But more than that this meal is one of my favourites.
Smoked Salmon and Dill Spaghetti
or
Simple Salmon Said Spaghetti
Ingredients ~
Grab a pack of spaghetti, pick up some smoked salmon (the off-cuts are perfect for this), a pot of creme fraiche, garlic cloves, fresh dill and capers.
Method ~
- Cook the spaghetti as per the instructions, I prefer it al-dente.
- While its cooking chop a clove of garlic and 2 handfuls of dill, roughly chop or tear the salmon into small bite size pieces.
- When the spaghetti is cooked, drain it and put it to one side.
- In the pan add a dash of olive oil and on a low heat warm it through then add the garlic, fry for a minute so it starts to release its flavour.
- Now add a tablespoon of capers, mix in, then add a tablespoon of dill. Give it a stir.
- Now add 2 – 3 tablespoons of creme fraiche and another stir.
- Next put the salmon pieces into the pan, and give it all a gentle stir.
- Add the spaghetti back into the pan, and give everything a good mix.
- Sprinkle the remaining handful of dill into the dish.
- Check for seasoning – a grind of black pepper is good.
Perfect with a glass of something chilled, dry and white
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Yummy!
I’m loving this recipe. It sounds delicious and easy to do. I will call it après-every afternoon food…
Thanks for sharing it with us 🙂
Love it – Apres-every-afternoon food 🙂
maggie and her fiance. do a LOT of salmon cooking, so i emailed this recipe to her. It sounds wonderful!!
I hope Maggie likes it 🙂 To be honest I don’t eat much salmon these days, I guess living on the coast like I do means I go for more local fish. But I love a good salmon salad in the height of summer with fresh lettuce, cucumbers, beans and eggs.
Perfect – dalmon, dill and creme fraiche…you could just stick it on a crusty baguette and save yourself the trouble of cooking the pasta! Hope you´re resting that arm…
You know that’s a genius idea !
Nice title, Claire. Good to have some easy recipes for times like these.
You know somedays I wonder where my head is! Pleased you liked the recipe too 🙂
This is delish!! My daughter in college will love this for sure!! And so will I, of course, but she is always on the look out for quick, great tasting meals!!
That’s fabulous, I think the mixture of salmon and dill is heavenly
I love simple, delicious dishes! So many people miss out on eating well because they just assume good food is hard. Looking forward to trying this.
Too true, sometimes simple is best. I hope you like it 🙂
I just made a pasta with salmon dish last weekend. Next time, I’ll give yours a try. This is a fantastic dish and I love how the salmon brings a smoky element to the pasta. Yum!
You know John I was thinking of you when I wrote this recipe up – I was thinking about your fresh pasta, in comparison to shop bought dried stuff, and for a special meal how wonderful your pasta would be with these ingredients. And now I’m curious as to how you did your salmon and pasta! Tell All ! Pleeeeeaaase
I hope you don’t mind my posting a link but here’s my recipe — and I’ll definitely be giving yours a try. I bought the salmon earlier today. 🙂
http://fromthebartolinikitchens.com/2011/05/18/trenette-al-salmone/
Not at all John, your recipe sounds fabulous. And reading it I realise I sometimes skip the garlic out of my salmon dish, for similar reasons. And as we bought some vodka for the fennel risotto, I have a great opportunity to try your version. The only problem I have here in France is finding the heavy (or double) cream. I will go and hunt it out! But sadly there won’t be any of your fresh pasta to go with it…. One day!
Oh, nice! I wish I’d had this recipe back when I was still selling fish…I could have moved a ton of smoked salmon with it!
It’s funny, but this is one of those dishes I’ve made for YEARS, I have no idea where it came from originally, but it regularly gets made 🙂
I believe this recipe is a cousin to the smoked salmon in lemon cream sauce that is our go-to pasta dish here. I’ll definitely do the capers-and-dill version myself, and soon. Richard is generally herb-resistant, so he’ll just get a plainer version and I can add the piquant delicacies to mine alone!!
Ooo I lik ethe sound sof lemon and cream, do you have a recipe, could you share it? The Dill is lovely, and as you say you could just add it at the end, when you have served up. Happy cooking 🙂
It isn’t really even a recipe, to be honest–I just simmer a cup or so of heavy cream until it thickens enough for a sauce, finish some nice fettuccine (or other pasta noodles that have been cooking alongside) in it, add at least a half cup of coarsely crumbled smoked salmon, juice and zest a lemon into it, and season with some cracked black pepper and (if needed despite the salmon, which it often is because I’m a salt fiend) adjust with salt. That’s all there is to my “method”–if you could call it that. 🙂
Fantastic! To be honest my salmon and Dill recipe is a non-recipe too. Sometimes I omit things, other times I add them. But through posting my non-recipe I have your lemon and cream dish and John’s vodka version to try. Life is good 🙂 Claire
The kids love salmon and pasta. In fact its one of the few dishes that everyone in my family will eat!
Oh trying to make food for everyone must be a tough job!
It sounds quite tasty though I’d use regular salmon as I’ve overdone it on the smoked stuff. 🙂
I know what you mean about overdoing things! I think it might work well with smoked trout, but I’ve never tried that.
perfect, light and lovely. And how do your battered muscles and bones feel, are you recovering? c
Hi C, they and their owner are feeling a bit cranky today! Waiting for the next set of x-rays, trying hard not to sulk TOO much! Hard when a metre of snow is forecast this weekend. Think I may go home for a few days and potter in the garden, or just drool over my seeds 🙂
Ooh heavenly – one handed, two handed, either way a perfect dish!
🙂 Mandy
At the moment it end’s up being a case of three handed 🙂
My kids love pasta and salmon, so this combination is already a winner in my house! Oh I love capers… I tend to put too many but should follow your recipe. Thanks for sharing, I’d love to try this one soon!
Pleased you like the capers. One of my favourite pizza’s is a basic pizza bread thin), lots of garlic and oil, some mozarella and plenty of capers. The capers cut through the heavy richness of the melted cheese!
Clever twist on the title, Claire. 🙂 Thought the capers addition very interesting. I do something similar but without capers. I will certainly try that next time.
Pleased you liked it! Sometimes I struggle to name posts, and other times my mind is off at some tangent and the fun kicks in 🙂
Perfect – delicious and quick. I do love smoked salmon.
Thank you 🙂
This sounds like a delicious quick meal, I have bookmarked this for one those energy and inclination-bereft situations. You can’t go wrong with the combination of dill, capers and salmon
“energy and inclination-bereft situations” sums it up to nicely, expcept for TASTY 🙂