Main Meals

Pappardelle with salmon and lemony pea-and-dill dressing

6
Easy
10 minutes
30 minutes
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Creation Viognier 2019

Thanks for your rating!

You must be logged in to rate a recipe. Login

Ingredients

Method
  • 1⁄2 x 250 g packet pappardelle, cooked al dente
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 6 Norwegian salmon steaks (fillets)
  • 100 g mangetout
  • 100 g petit-pois peas
  • salt, to taste
  • 6 Hass avocados, peeled and cut into chunks
  • For the dressing, mix:

  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1 x 20 g punnet dill, roughly chopped
  • 1⁄4 cup Italian parsley, tightly packed
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 3 lemons, zested and juiced

Method

Ingredients

1. In a bowl, toss the dressing with the cooked pasta. Heat a pan until hot and add the olive oil. Place the salmon steaks in the pan skin side down and cook until the skin is golden and crispy (about 3 minutes).
2. Add the mangetout and petit-pois to the pan, turn the salmon over and fry for a further 2 minutes. Season to taste.
3. Tip the salmon, peas and avocado into the pasta and gently fold together. The salmon may break into large chunks. Serve immediately.

Find more seafood recipes here.

 

Khanya Mzongwana

Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

View all recipes

Comments

Load more