Quick Summer Tomato and Salmon Pasta

 Summer Tomato and Salmon Pasta.
I am still rocking some relatively light meals that are a little light on the meat front after eating bucket loads of the stuff in the last couple of weeks. This glorious salmon pasta recipe is just part of that!

We have spent the last few days without any electricity. Scheduled powers outages in our village from 8am till 4pm. Fortunately, this allowed us to really get in the garden do a load of chores.

We have also been out shopping far more than usual. Primarily with the aim of not getting round to those chores I just mentioned. On our journeys, we happened upon some awesome salmon and just had to buy it.
This salmon pasta dish is a bit of a twist on a dish that I tend to make with canned salmon. But it really does sing when paired with fresh salmon.

Salmon and pasta may sound like an unusual combination but it is actually really rather common!
Ingredients :
300 g Salmon Fillet Skinned Boned and cut into batons about 3mm by 5cm long
3 Tbsp Bread Crumbs
5 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
1 Shallot Finely Diced
2 Tbsp Fresh Parsley Finely Chopped
2 Spring Onions Cut into 5cm lengths and then sliced as finely as you can
125 g Plum Tomatoes If you can not get plum find something fleshy rather than something with loads of seed, deseed and cut into a fine dice
125 g Flat Pasta I use Mafaldine but Fettuccine would work just as well
Salt and Pepper to taste
20 Fresh Basil Leaves Rolled in your hand and then finely sliced

Instructions :
Before you put on your pasta water, marinade the salmon with the shallot, parsley, 1 tbsp of olive oil and 1 Tbsp of lemon juice.
Cook your pasta as per instructions.
You will need to do a little calculation here as cooking off the salmon will take around 2-3 minutes and you do not want nasty dry salmon.
Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil to a pan over a medium high heat and toast off the bread crumbs, when golden set aside on a piece of kitchen towel.
Clean out the pan and around 3 minutes before the pasta is ready to come out of the water add in a further 2 tablespoons of olive oil and saute the salmon and shallot mix.
One minute later add in the tomatoes and the salad onions and continue to saute for a further 2 minutes until the salmon is just cooked.
Drain the pasta and add it into the pan with the salmon and stir to combine.
Test for seasoning adding salt and pepper as required and even a little squeeze of lemon juice if you like.
Finally sprinkle over the breadcrumbs and the finely sliced basil leaves.