Easiest Way to Make Ultimate Pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel
by Nell Beck
Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel:
Take 300 g salmon fillet skin on
Prepare 170 g red lentil pasta
Prepare 2 fennel
Prepare 50 g spinach
Get 20 g pine nuts
Make ready 1 clove garlic
Prepare 15 ml olive oil
Make ready 20 g parmesan
Take 2 tbsp lemon
Get 1 pinch salt
Prepare 1 pinch black pepper
Make ready 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
Take 1 pinch ground nutmeg
Steps to make Pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel:
Prepare all of the ingredients. Using a knife scale the salmon. Cut the salmon into two 150 g fillets. Grade the parmesan finally. Prep the fennel by quartering it and cutting the core out (the hard and firm part of it). Wash the fennel, spinach and basil.
Place prepped fennel on the roasting tray in the pre heated oven at 180 °C. It should take about 20 min to roast it.
Using the kitchen towel dry off the salmon skin. Heat up the frying pan (with the metal handle) with a little bit of cooking oil. Pan needs to be smoking hot. Place the salmon on the pan skin down. Sprinkle the salmon with the salt. Sear the fish for about 30 - 40 sec on medium/high heat just from one side then place the pan into the oven keeping it 180 °C. It should take about 15 min to cook it.
In the meantime on the dry frying pan toast the pine nuts. Do it on low heat until golden/golden brown. Add chopped garlic to it toward the end and cook it for few seconds
Place the pine nuts, garlic, spinach, nutmeg, 1 tbsp lemon and olive oil into the food processor.
In a medium pot bring water to the boil. Add pinch of salt to it
It's all about timings now. Throw pasta into the boiling water when salmon is in the oven for about 10 min. It takes 6 min to cook the pasta.
When pasta is nearly ready(5 min after throwing into the water) using ladle take about 100 ml of pasta water and add it to the food processor. Blend it. Season it with salt and black pepper.
When pasta is ready drain the water off. Bring pasta back to the pot and mix it with the pesto sauce.
Serve
So that’s going to wrap this up with this exceptional food pan roasted salmon/lentil pasta, green pesto and roasted fennel recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident that you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!