Smoked Salmon Pesto Pasta

I also used white wine and fresh diced tomatoes and left out the tomatoes paste. Cold smoked my own a salmon and it turned out perfectly. May need to add a bit of salt to taste.

This looks pretty unappetizing, but it tasted good. I'm sure it makes a difference which pesto and smoked salmon you use, but ours tasted far more strongly of pesto than of salmon.

My husband and I LOVED this! I made a few changes after reading reviews. 1) I omitted mushrooms (I do not like them and didn't have any) 2) I used a can (14.5oz) of Hunts Rosemary, garlic & green pepper diced tomatoes and about 1.5 cups of Prego thick & chunky vegetable spaghetti sauce and omitted the water all instead of the tomato paste (which resulted in a thicker more hearty sauce) 3) I stovetop cooked 2 lightly seasoned 5oz salmon filets in olive oil instead of cooking with the sauce (I wanted to control how long they cooked). 4) Lastly, I used penne pasta instead of spaghetti because that's what I had on hand. Once everything cooked satisfactorily separately I combined it all, making sure the pasta was coated with sauce. I topped mine with Parmesan cheese. I accompanied it with spinach cooked in white wine and garlic knots (bread). My husband made a point to ask me to include this dish in our meal rotation! Khalilah

To make sure that this dish turns out delicious, you need to use a good quality pesto, or one you know you like, as it really makes a lot of difference! I did make slight changes to this recipe: I used rucola, added a dash of white wine, added porcini mushroom, and used half the salmon uncooked, the color looks prettier, and it also tastes different. (I used the thin salmon slices used to put on bread).