Recipe: Perfect Salmon 'Carbonara'

Salmon 'Carbonara'. The bacon carbonara is the more popular choice, but I always found that fish, and salmon in particular is a great choice for a posh dinner. You can replaced the baked salmon with smoked salmon, that's absolutely fine. Place the salmon fillets on a baking tray, drizzle with the olive oil, scatter with half the lemon zest and a squeeze of juice and season well. Remove and discard the skin and any bones, then flake the salmon flesh into bite-size pieces and set aside. Immediately pour the egg mixture over the hot pasta.

Turn the heat under the skillet to medium. Using tongs, gently lift and turn the pasta, egg mixture, salmon, peas, and bacon together until creamy sauce forms on the pasta. The egg will cook on contact with hot pasta. You can have Salmon 'Carbonara' using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Salmon 'Carbonara'

1. You need 75 g of spaghetti (dry weight).
2. Prepare 60 g of smoked salmon, cut into fine strips,.
3. You need 1 of egg yolk,.
4. Prepare of Some chopped chives,.
5. It's 1 of tiny drizzle extra virgin olive oil,.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of lemon zest, plus juice of half a small lemon,.
7. Prepare of Salt and pepper to season.

Sprinkle the food with the cheese and toss gently. A healthy and simple smoked salmon pasta carbonara recipe. It's a super quick and delicious weeknight meal that's creamy (without any cream), luxurious and packed full of flavour! Smoked salmon carbonara is the easiest pasta dish you will ever make - and possibly the most impressive!

Salmon 'Carbonara' instructions

1. Bring some salted water to the boil and begin cooking the spaghetti according to packet instructions..
2. Once cooked, drain off the pasta in a collander and season with salt and pepper then drizzle over a little extra virgin olive oil and add in the smoked salmon and chopped chives. Squeeze over the lemon juice then add the lemon zest. Toss everything together in the collander until evenly combined..
3. Serve up and make a well in the centre of the spaghetti and gently place the egg yolk into the center. Before eating break the yolk and stir it through the warm spaghetti to coat the strands of pasta, eat and enjoy! :).

Smoked Salmon Carbonara is a very easy-to-make recipe. This salmon pasta recipe is for lovers of fish and Mediterranean flavors. I think you all know that Spaghetti alla Carbonara is an Italian pasta dish made with eggs, parmesan cheese, pecorino romano cheese, guanciale and black pepper. In my version of salmon carbonara I wanted to prepare spaghetti carbonara with smoked salmon instead of. This Smoked Salmon Spaghetti Carbonara is perfect if you're following a calorie controlled diet and fits well with any one of the major diet plans such as Weight Watchers.