Smoked Salmon Fettuccine With Healthy Dill Alfredo Sauce
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
-
2
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup low fat cottage cheese
- 1 tablespoon parmesan cheese, shredded
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dill weed, dried
- 3⁄4 cup green bell pepper, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 6 ounces smoked salmon, cut into bite-size pieces
- 1⁄2 cup cherry tomatoes, quartered
- 1 tablespoon capers, chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, snipped
- 4 ounces fettuccine, uncooked (I used Florentine, which is 1/2 spinach and 1/2 egg pasta)
- lemon pepper, to taste
- fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- shredded parmesan cheese, to taste
directions
- Boil and prepare fettuccine as directed on package instructions; drain and set aside.
- (Before draining, reserve about 1/4 cup of pasta cooking water, which you can use later to thin the sauce or moisten the vegetables as you cook them, if necessary).
- Place cottage cheese, 1 Tbsp parmesan cheese,flour, black pepper, lemon juice, garlic, and dill weed in a food processor bowl and pulse until smooth; set aside.
- In a large nonstick pan or wok, heat oil over medium heat and saute green pepper and onion for about 3 minutes.
- Turn heat down to low or low-medium and allow the pan to cool enough that the next ingredients won't burn.
- Add tomatoes, capers, salmon, and sauce to the pan; stir and cook for 1-2 minutes or until heated through.
- Add pasta and parsley and continue to cook on low for 1-2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and serve, topping individual servings with pepper, lemon pepper, and parmesan to taste.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
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