One-Pot Spring Pasta With Smoked Salmon

For such a simple recipe, this is really good! While I did add the asparagus to the pasta water, I put the peas in the colander when I drained the pasta. I didn’t think it needed the 1/2 cup of sour cream at the end, but I did up the lemon to taste. Always happy to try different approaches to using salmon.

• Lia Finney

• Whidbey Island WA

• 4/22/2024

I can't count the number of times I've made this recipe, although I often alter it depending on what I have on hand. Fabulous combination of flavors and textures. I've subbed smoked Black Cod (sablefish) for the salmon, yogurt for the sour cream, zucchini for the asparagus, added feta, fresh mozzarella, etc. The recipe as published is just the beginning of what can be done for variation. I like the veggies crisp, so I barely blanch them in the pasta cooking water for a few seconds. I always buy smoked salmon when it goes on sale, and it's usually gone very quickly..This is just as good cold as hot. I give this at least 6 stars.

• StuKin

• CT

• 4/21/2023

Very easy and tasty as written (though I added more lemon to my plate just because I can never have enough lemon, and that was a plus for me!). A good addition to your rotation, if you make this once you can probably make it again without looking at the recipe.

• MP

• California

• 5/26/2022

I made it tonight (March 8, 2022). It was very quick & easy to prepare, and tasted wonderful! I added some dried basil to the sour cream, otherwise followed the recipe directly.

• Anonymous

• North Vancouver, BC, Canada

• 3/9/2022

What a waste of great ingredients! I guess they figured if they said "one pot pasta" they'd get clicks. And they got mine. But not again. It was easy enough to make, but the flavors are all wrong and it ends up tasting like school lunch slop. Nothing subtle or tasty about it. And to think of what I could have done with that asparagus and salmon? I'm pretty much done with epicurious since they don't seem to test the recipes they publish.

• jmueller19845361

• Santa Barbara, CA

• 8/5/2021

Hated it.

• Jgilson

• Seattle

• 6/14/2021

YUM. Would def make again. Wonderful salmon and cream cheese flavor, one of my favorite combos.

• kellygolson

• Atlanta

• 6/5/2021

This was really good. My partner loved it. I made this with angel hair pasta but everything else was the same. I did not have any fresh basil on hand but I went out and bought some, I'm really glad that I did because the basil really compliments this dish. Great ingredients and at perfect proportions. Will definitely make this again but with linguine pasta next time. Winner winner, linguine dinner.

• don_jones8455

• San Francisco

• 5/26/2021

I had my doubts about the lemon / sour cream combo but it worked beautifully. I didn't have frozen peas but I had frozen broccoli and cauliflower and it was good. I also didn't have basil... next time. This recipe was so good and so easy, a keeper in the recipe box.

• lalamster

• Austria

• 4/21/2021

Dandy - if you are not allergic to seafood. Suggestions for a different protein that would still blend with the flavor profile?

• fortzarah

• Kansas

• 6/3/2020

Delicious comfort food. I did not have fresh basil or salmon on hand. I thinly sliced bits of pepperoni to add nice salty bits of flavor.

• txgirl07

• 4/19/2020

4/4 100% Would Make It Again? The flavor profile of smoked salmon, sour cream, and fresh basil seemed all wrong. If I made it again I would stick with the lemon, maybe the butter, most likely olive oil, and definitely NOT basil. The sour cream was way over the top leaving an unpleasant mouth feel. The basil and the smoked salmon combo tasted soapy to me. I'd use parsley or even try cilantro but chives would probably work best. The technique was fine.

• janedougall9589

• Maine

• 6/9/2019

Adding this to my weekly (spring) rotation! Super easy to put together, and the lemon/sour cream/salmon mixture really sing. I used zucchini noodles for a lower carb version and it was delicious. And bonus my (albeit adventurous eater) 2 year old gobbled this down quickly. She loved the lemon peas and salmon!

• cotwolds

• Seattle, WA

• 3/30/2019

I made this for an extended family celebration and everyone was BLOWN AWAY. Singularly one of the most impressive things I've ever made, and easy. Make this. That is all.

• nrlong1

• Reston VA

• 10/17/2018

This was yum! I am diabetic, so I did a low carbish sauce with half and half, plain yogurt, 1/4 tsp xanthan gum, plus about 1/2 cup shredded parmesan. Only had about half the amount of basil, so ribboned it to spread it throughout the dish. The combination of flavors and textures is lovely.

• lkmemphis2

• Memphis, TN

• 5/12/2018