Salmon Flakes Garlic Pasta

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Hello everyone! I'm back :) Today I am going to share my very own recipe. My Salmon Flake Garlic Pasta. Its very easy and takes less than 30 minutes to make :) If you don't have enough time or only have less 30 minutes to make dinner or lunch at home, then this pasta recipe is perfect for you! Most of the ingredients are very simple, easy to find and you probably have it in your pantry. Lets start cooking :)

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Ingredients :

  • Salmon Flakes 2-3 tsp

  • Garlic 5-8 cloves or less if you want

  • Olive oil (extra virgin) 1/4 cup more or less if you want, I used about 1/3 cup which is a lot

  • Shallots (optional)

  • chili flakes (optional)

  • Pasta 1/2 lbs good for 2-3 people

  • salt and pepper to taste.

 

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Here are the Ingredients!

You can find Salmon flakes at Asian Grocery Store particularly Nijiya market or Mitsuwa market  both are japanese grocery store. Salmon flakes is very common in japan specially when making Obento or japanese lunch box. You can make onigiri, musubi or rice balls, you can add it to your tamago yaki or japanese omelette or regular omelette.Those are some examples and many more on how you can use this Salmon flakes. This is already seasoned so you don't really have to add too much salt when you use this in any dish. Or if you don't have this salmon flakes at home, fresh salmon will work fine too.

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Lets starts by putting the olive oil and garlic in the pan.Then start the fire on low setting we wanted to infused the flavor of garlic in the olive oil this will a while to cook just be patient low and slow. Cooking process will about 10 to 15 minutes.

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While we wait for the garlic to cook, We can check the other pot for our pasta. When the water boils add some salt and then add the pasta. Cooking time depends on the brand or depends on  the pasta that you have. If you have fresh pasta go ahead and use it. Mine takes about 10-12 minutes to cook.

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Once the garlic is cooked you can add the shallots and the chili flakes.This will takes about a minute or two so once they are cooked, Turn of the heat. At this point the pasta is probably cooked.

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Add the pasta and salmon flakes and mix them together, And its done! Do not forget to add salt and pepper to taste.Salmon flakes is already seasoned and salted so I didn't really add that much salt, maybe less than a pinch.

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 Add some chopped parsley for garnish and color. There you have it! Very simple quick and easy pasta dish.  

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Thank you for checking my blog. I hope you enjoy this pasta dish. Let me know if you make this pasta recipe or how you like this dish, I would love to hear your opinion.  

I hope you enjoy this recipe! Let me know if guys like this recipe or what is your go to pasta dish? Have a wonderful day :) Tune in on my next blog!

Wabbita