Creamy salmon pasta with lemon, capers and mascarpone
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- 300 g penne rigate
- 300 g salmon without the skin
- 2–3 tbsp mascarpone
- 1 cloves garlic clove
- capers
- parsley
- 1 whole Sicilian lemon
Cut the skinless salmon into cubes.
Crush a clove of garlic into the oil; wait about 20 seconds, then add the salmon over medium-low heat and cook gently.
Garlic and salmon in olive oil, gently
Add the chili to cook with the garlic, then the capers and a sprinkle of parsley.
Chili, capers and parsley
- 1 tbsp rock salt
Add a tablespoon of rock salt to boiling water and cook the penne 11 minutes, per the packet.
Without overcooking the salmon, break the small pieces with a fork into a kind of salmon ragu, keeping good pieces whole to decorate; stir well.
Breaking the salmon into a ragu
With two minutes left on the pasta, add a lot of lemon zest and squeeze in the rest of the lemon juice.
Lemon zest and the last of the juice
- pasta water
Add about half a mug of starchy pasta water to the sauce.
Pasta water and moving the pasta
Lift the pasta with a colander straight into the sauce; do not let it sit and dry in the colander.
Add two or three generous spoons of mascarpone and a generous amount of parsley; toss until creamy.
Mascarpone and tossing until creamy
Serve, placing the reserved salmon pieces on top, and finish with a little parsley.
Plating with salmon on top