Creamy Salmon Pasta

A simple creamy pasta dish made with salmon, frozen peas and cream. A great way to encourage get kids to eat fish and ready in just 15 minutes. The perfect mid-week family meal.

You may have read my last couple of posts (Tortilla Salad Bowl or Eton Mess) in which I talked about becoming an ambassador for FareShare, a UK charity fighting hunger and food waste by redistributing surplus food from the food industry to local charities and communities projects.

FareShare supports over 10,000 frontline charities and community groups including homeless shelters, children’s breakfast clubs, lunch clubs for older people and domestic violence refuges. At this time of year they also support holiday hunger clubs through their #ActivateAte campaign, supplying food to over 400 holiday projects, providing nutritious meals and snacks to 50,000 children.

As part of my work with FareShare I’m going to be creating some recipes using some of their most commonly redistributed food items. Today’s recipe is using fresh salmon to make a delicious kid-friendly creamy pasta dish.

STEP 1

The first step is to boil up some pasta in a saucepan. I’ve used bowtie pasta but any type of dried pasta shape is fine.

STEP 2

Next it’s time to create the delicious salmon and sauce. In a frying pan cook some onion and garlic in oil or butter and then add salmon chunks, frozen peas and stock cube.

Then add 100ml of the water that the pasta is cooking in to the pan. This will help create a sauce that will  blend perfectly with the pasta and not be watery.

STEP 3

Once the salmon has cooked add the cream and then finally add the cooked and drained pasta.

Serve straight away for a delicious and filling meal that the whole family will love. If you have very fussy eaters who don’t like fish, then try cutting it into smaller pieces before serving. When mixed with the cream sauce and pasta they will barely notice that it’s even there!

If you’d like to learn more about FareShare, their work tackling hunger and food waste and also details on how you can get involved with fundraising and volunteering, head on over to their website now.

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