Sockeye Popeye Pasta With Roasted Vegetables

Submitted by Pot Scrubber

"I created a variation of this Pot Scrubber original dish for a Zaar recipe contest but missed the deadline. Oops. It's too late for me to submit it but it is not too late for you to try it."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 3

ingredients

• 226.79 g smoked salmon (Sockeye)
• 118.29 ml baby spinach leaves (Popeye)
• 6 white pearl onions
• 10 cherry tomatoes
• 453.59 g eggplant (chopped into large cubes)
• 8 garlic cloves (left whole, not chopped)
• 14.79 ml capers
• 10 black olives (Kalamata Olives if you can get them)
• 44.37 ml olive oil
• 226.79 g pasta, cooked (I like angel hair or spaghetti)
• 2 lemon wedges (optional)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400. If you buy your smoked salmon vacuum packed and refrigerated like I do, then place the salmon on top of the stove so the heat from the oven will warm it up while the vegetables are roasting.
2. Combine the pearl onions, cherry tomatoes, cubed eggplant, whole garlic cloves, capers, and olives in a large cast iron or calphalon skillet coated with olive oil.
3. Toss the vegetables a bit and try to arrange them so as many vegetables as possible make contact with the skillet.
4. Pop into the oven and roast them for about 20-30 minutes until they are roasted well.
5. Prepare pasta and drain very well. Add about a TB of olive oil and the baby spinach leaves and flaked salmon to the hot pasta and toss. This will just slightly wilt the spinach. Cover so it stays warm.
6. When the vegetables are roasted then pour them and any juices or oil that is left in the skillet in with the pasta.
7. Toss again and sprinkle generously with black pepper. I doubt you will need any more olive oil but if your pasta is dry then add some more if you need to. Serve on a pretty plate with a lemon wedge for sprinkling.
8. There you have it.

Reviews

[Irmgard]

This recipe is so simple yet so delicious. I made a couple of small tweaks - extra tomatoes as I had some to use up, steelhead smoked salmon instead of sockeye because it was more affordable, and a generous sprinkle of Penzey's Pasta Sprinkle. This actually made enough for four servings so we have leftovers for another night.

 

[MissPenny]

I just loved this. Since the rest of the household turns its nose up at eggplant I had this all to my self for dinner, lunch etc. Yum I just loved this and will make over and over. thank you!

 

[Leggy Peggy]

Potts, you would be pleased to know that even she-who-does-not-eat-seafood had high praise for this dish, so it must be a winner. I adjusted the quantities (but not the ingredients) a bit to cater for our crowd, and it all came together beautifully. By the time it reached the dining table of this hectic household, it was at room temperature. No problem. This was made and reviewed for Pick a Chef. To emphasise how nicely all my adopted chefs play together, I will note that the oil and garlic used in this recipe came from the garlic confit part of Recipe #40073 by Chef #49214.