I get so excited when my sister/friends post my food and then ask for a recipe! I love sharing quick and yummy meals because I feel like sharing food and recipe is the best extension of a little bit of love 🙂
This is a 12 minute smoked salmon pasta inspired by the smoked salmon macaroni salad from Seattle Fish Guys! I love their poke bowls, and the macaroni salad shines just as brightly as their amazingly fresh Tuna Poke. Crazy right?
Ingredients you need:
– Favorite pasta
– Smoked Salmon (hard smoked- meaning the one that’s ‘cooked’ in texture. Cold smoked is the one that looks raw still)
– Diced shallots or onion
– Garlic powder, red pepper flakes, S&P to taste
– Mayo
– Dijon Mustard
– Lemon or lime
– Tabasco Sauce
– Frozen veggies (we used peas, broccoli, and corn)
Instructions:
1. Start 2 pots of salted water to boil (1 for pasta 1 for frozen veggies)
2. When water boils, cook your pasta al dente (ours takes 11 minutes). In the other pot, quickly defrost and blanch your veggies and remove to a colander to drain.
3. Break apart smoked salmon, add your blanched veggies and diced onion, add S&P, crushed red pepper and garlic seasoning, your dijon mustard and mayo, and mix roughly. Squeeze in some lemon or lime and mix in as much Tabasco sauce as you like. I would suggest you start with less mayo and dijon and slowly add more to taste after you mix with pasta if needed.
4. Once your pasta is cooked and drained mix it with the rest of your ingredients.
*for a more decadent pasta, reduce the mayo and add some softened cream cheese to your pasta instead. Also, Seattle Fish Guys doesn’t add veggies besides onions, but veggies here were really yummy grabbing up the smoked salmon mixture so you should def give this a try!
I felt silly writing these instructions since it’s so simple. Since pasta takes 11 minutes to cook, you can prepare everything else during that time and by the time pastas done, all you have left is to mix it in with the rest of the ingredients. This is best served chilled, but if you’re like us and impatient, it’s also yummy right after assembling.
I know I don’t have exact measurements, but everything is so preferential to your family that hopefully you’re okay with trusting your instincts a bit on how much of each ingredient to add. I made a salt free and barely touched with mayo version for baby Mila, and she loved it as well!
Hope you enjoy!