15-Minute Smoked Mackerel Pasta
If you enjoy carbonara but ran out of bacon, we have a recipe for you! This Quick Smoked Mackerel Pasta is creamy, filling and has plenty of smokiness of the mackerel. Ready in 15 minutes, this is a wonderful weeknight dinner meal, and any leftovers make a great smoked mackerel pasta salad lunch the next day! Simple, inexpensive and easily scalable, this recipe is a winner on our table!
Ingredients
- 180 g pasta
- 1 red onion finely chopped
- ½ lemon zest and juice
- 150 g sour cream or creme fraiche
- ¼ vegetable stock cube
- 100 g baby spinach
- 150 g smoked mackerel skin discarded
- a pinch of red chilli flakes to garnish
- a few chives to garnish
Instructions
- Cook pasta following the package instructions in a large pan of water.
- In the meantime, heat a drizzle of oil in a large frying pan. Add the chopped onions and sautee them for 5-6 minutes on low-medium heat until softened.
- Reduce the heat and add the juice of half a lemon. Add the sour cream (or creme fraiche) and stir for a minute. Then crumble in ¼ of a stock cube and add about 100ml of the starchy pasta water and stir again. Leave the sauce to simmer on low heat until the pasta is almost ready.
- A couple of minutes before you drain the pasta, stir the spinach into the sauce and leave it to wilt.
- Tip the drained pasta into the sauce and stir to coat. Take the pan off the heat and stir in flakes of the smoked mackerel.
- Garnish the dish with lemon zest, chilli flakes and snipped chives.
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Nutrition
Calories: 644kcalCarbohydrates: 80gProtein: 31gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 10gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 80mgSodium: 220mgPotassium: 996mgFiber: 6gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 5209IUVitamin C: 35mgCalcium: 181mgIron: 4mg
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