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Canned salmon pasta with spinach and mushrooms

Spain on a Fork · ♥ 3.9K likes · 92.7K views · 9 min video

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Ingredients
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  • cold water
Fill a stock pot a little over halfway with cold water, salt generously with sea salt and heat on high.
Salting the pasta water
  • sea salt
  • 1 small onion
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • 200 g spinach
  • 8 whole white mushrooms
Finely chop 1 small onion, roughly chop 6 cloves garlic and 200 g spinach, and slice 8 white mushrooms a quarter inch thick.
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Heat a large fry pan on medium with about 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil for about a minute, then saute the onion 3 to 4 minutes until translucent.
Add the mushrooms and saute 3 to 4 minutes more.
Add the garlic for about 30 seconds without browning it.
  • ½ tsp sweet smoked Spanish paprika
  • ½ tsp dried thyme
  • sea salt
  • black pepper
Season with 1/2 tsp sweet smoked Spanish paprika, 1/2 tsp dried thyme, a pinch of sea salt and black pepper; mix.
  • 120 ml dry white wine
Add 120 ml dry white wine and simmer 2 to 3 minutes until reduced by half.
Add the spinach, cover and turn off the heat.
Wilting the spinach off the heat
  • 225 g fettuccine
When the water is ready ('the water's now out of oil', as transcribed), cook 225 g fettuccine until just al dente, stirring every two minutes or so.
Cooking the fettuccine
  • 2 can canned salmon
Drain 2 cans of salmon in a fine sieve over a bowl and break into large chunks.
  • 170 g plain Greek yogurt
  • sea salt
  • black pepper
Uncover the wilted spinach and mix; stir in 170 g room-temperature Greek yogurt with a little sea salt and plenty of black pepper.
Greek yogurt sauce
  • pasta cooking water
Transfer the pasta straight into the sauce with some of its cooking water and mix, adding reserved pasta water if the sauce is too thick.
Combining pasta, pasta water and salmon
Add the salmon chunks and mix gently.