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🍝 Spring pasta salad with salmon and creamy herb Grana Padano sauce
1117 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 400 g whole wheat spirelli pasta (or other pasta type)
- salt
- 400 g green asparagus
- 7 tbsp olive oil
- 4 radishes
- 2 handfuls arugula (40 g)
- 30 g Kalamata olives (pitted)
- 50 g walnut kernels
- 100 g Grana Padano
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- pepper
- 1 shallot
- 0.5 bunch mixed herbs (10 g; e.g. thyme, parsley, basil)
- 100 ml white wine
- 100 ml whipping cream
- 100 g sour cream
- 600 g salmon fillet (4 pieces of 150 g each)
Instructions
- 1. Bring water to a boil and add salt. Cook the pasta in it for about 10 minutes until al dente. Drain the pasta, rinse it briefly with cold water, and let it drain well.
- 2. Trim the asparagus, wash it, and cut off the woody ends. Cut the asparagus spears in half lengthwise and then cut them diagonally into bite-sized pieces.
- 3. Heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a pan. Fry the asparagus pieces over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove the asparagus from the pan and let it cool.
- 4. Wash the radishes, halve them, and slice them thinly. Wash the arugula, shake it dry, and pick off any tough stems.
- 5. Halve the olives lengthwise. Roughly chop the walnut kernels. Finely grate 60 grams of Grana Padano cheese.
- 6. Whisk 4 tablespoons of olive oil, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, maple syrup, and 2 tablespoons of water in a small bowl. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.
- 7. Toss the drained pasta with the asparagus, radishes, arugula, olives, walnuts, and the dressing mixture. Set the salad aside.
- 8. Peel the shallot and chop it finely. Wash the herbs, shake them dry, pick off the leaves, and chop them finely. Finely grate the remaining Grana Padano cheese.
- 9. Heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a small saucepan. Sauté the shallot over medium heat for 3 minutes.
- 10. Deglaze the shallot with white wine. Let the liquid reduce over low heat for 5 to 10 minutes until it has reduced.
- 11. Stir in the heavy cream, sour cream, and grated Grana Padano into the sauce. Let the sauce simmer over low to medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- 12. Add the chopped herbs to the sauce. Season the sauce with salt and pepper to taste.
- 13. Rinse the salmon fillets under cold water and pat them dry with a kitchen towel.
- 14. Heat the remaining olive oil in a pan. Fry the salmon fillets over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes on one side.
- 15. Turn the salmon fillets and fry them for another 4 minutes on the other side.
- 16. Season the cooked salmon with salt, pepper, and the remaining lemon juice.
- 17. Divide the pasta salad among four plates. Place one salmon fillet and a spoonful of sauce on each plate.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 1117
- Protein: 58 g · Fett/Fat: 66 g · Carbs: 69 g