Insalata di pasta con salmone e carciofini
Pasta salad with smoked salmon and artichokes in oil
Pasta salad with smoked salmon and artichokes in oil is a ready-to-do and simple main dish for your alfresco dinner or a tasty dish for a buffet menu or one-course meal for your Sunday lunch.
Choose good quality salmon, artichokes, pasta and olive oil for the best result. Prefer fresh aromatic herbs and use the amount you like.
Choose good quality salmon, artichokes, pasta and olive oil for the best result. Prefer fresh aromatic herbs and use the amount you like.
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- 180 g (6 1/4oz) pasta
- 30 g (1 1/4oz) ready-to-eat sun dried tomatoes
- 60 g (2 1/4oz) artichokes in oil
- Fresh chives, chopped
- Fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Time:
preparation: 15 minutes
cooking: 30 minutes
total: 30 minutes - Difficulty:
easy recipe - Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 537 (kCal) - 2248 (kJ)
Protein: 26.6 (g)
Total fat: 17.1 (g)
Total carbohydrate: 61.8 (g)
Sugars: 3.6 (g)
The recipe of pasta salad with smoked salmon and artichokes in oil
Prepare the ingredients to dress the pasta. Cut the salmon slices into strips and slice the artichokes. Put them in the serving bowl. Cut the sun dried tomatoes too and add them to the bowl.
Add the aromatic herbs and olive oil too.
Stir and put apart.
Cook the pasta. Meanwhile cook the pasta in abundant salt water until al dente stage following the instructions on the package or our directions about the art of cooking Italian pasta.
The last step. Drain the pasta and run under cold water in order to stop cooking, drain again.
Transfer the pasta into the bowl.
Stir and taste to determine if the dish needs added salt. It shouldn't be necessary.
Your pasta is ready.
Note
- - Let the pasta rest for at least an hour before serving.
- - You can make this pasta salad with farro (spelt) or wholemeal pasta too as you can se in the photo.
- - Serve it at your Sunday family lunch or as a course in a complete menu for a celebration party. In the last case it serves more people (4 to 5 servings).
Healthy eating
- - Generally pasta salad is a dish rich in ingredients and so it is necessary to calculate the right amount of everything we use not to exceed calories, fat and sugars. In fact this pasta salad is rich in calories and protein. So follow our tips, please.
- - Daily menu. Serve this pasta salad at lunch and complete your meal only with fresh fruit. It's a pefect one-plate meal! Add raw seasonal vegetable (celery, carrots, tomatoes or bell peppers without dressing these vegetables) if you are still hungry. Don't exceed with protein at dinner, it would be better a vegetarian menu at dinner. Eventually, to reduce the calories, use only 80 g (2 3/4oz) pasta.
We remember pasta should be eaten preferably at lunch and the calories eaten at lunch should be 500 - 700 (30 - 35% of energy needs for an adult if his daily needs are about 2000 calories and he correctly divides his calories into 5 micro-meals).
Here are the doses per head: 90 g (3 1/4oz) pasta, 15 g (1/2oz) sundried tomatoes, 30 g (1 1/4oz) artichokes in oil, 50 g (1 3/4oz) smoked salmon, aromatic herbs and one tablespoon olive oil. - - Special occasion menu. It's a perfect choice for a complete menu rich of courses. It is better not to calculate calories, fat, protein, sugars in a special occasion ... do you agree?
- - If you want to drink a glass of wine remember you have to add 80-85 kCal per 100 ml.
- - If you want to know more about Italian pasta and its nutrition value read this page.
- - We remember you our original home recipes can be made without salt; there is a combination of flavours that substitutes salt. Other salt-free recipes ...
What's the right wine ?
Our tip is Pinot Grigio, a tasty white wine of Friuli in Italy
The author Loretta Sebastiani lives in Italy (IT)
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