Salmon Spinach Pasta
Easy and healthy 30 minute meal. It is a lightly pan fried salmon over a lemon garlic white wine pasta!
Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
- 2 salmon filets skin off, cubed
- 6 oz penne pasta cooked to al dente
- 1 cup of pasta water reserved
- 1 cup white wine or chicken stock
- 2 cups chopped spinach
- ¼ an an onion chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- juice of ½ lemon
- zest of ½ lemon
- pinch of red pepper flake
Instructions
- Salt and pepper your cubed salmon pieces.
- Cook cubed salmon over medium high heat for 3-4 minutes on each side.
- Chop spinach, onion, and garlic for the sauce
- Remove the cooked salmon and set aside
- In the same skillet, sauté onion and garlic in 1 tablespoon of butter until lightly browned.
- Add in the white wine to deglaze and cook 5 minutes.
- Stir in spinach, lemon juice, lemon zest, salt and pepper. Reduced for 5-7 minutes
- Stir in al dente pasta and let it cook until it has absorbed most of the remaining liquid.
- Plate pasta in 2 bowls and top with cubes of salmon!