Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Pesto Salmon Pasta
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 58 cooks on www.thespruceeats.com rate it 4.3★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 155.
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Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 340 g | 2 grilled salmon steaks |
| Kosher salt | |
| 454 g | 1 (16-ounce) package spaghetti pasta |
| 340 g | 1 (12-ounce) container basil pesto |
| 238 g | 1 cup heavy cream |
| 230 g | 1 cup sour cream |
| 50 g | 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated and divided |
Method: 10 steps, published by www.thespruceeats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This is an excellent dish for someone who doesn't really like salmon (WHAT!?!?!) I am (ahem) over 60, love all kinds of fish, but I never could get a taste for salmon. I finally did a blind comparison of farm raised and wild caught salmon, and of course, I lik” — a cook
“I used leftover salmon to make pasta pesto salmon. The next night I took the leftover pasta pesto salmon, diced it up, added an egg, cut up a hot dog bun and fried up some pasta pesto salmon cakes. Topped with thousand island dressing and shallots. Mmmm...” — a cook