# SMOKED SALMON PASTA

This dish tastes like something from a cozy Italian bistro but it's all from Trader Joe's, takes less than 20 minutes to make and the hot smoked salmon is the star here.

- Total time: 20 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 package hot smoked salmon (Trader Joe’s), remove skin and shred in a bowl
- your favorite pasta
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 0.75 cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half
- 2 green onions thinly sliced
- 0.5 lemon
- black pepper to taste
- Parmesan to finish (optional but recommended)

## Instructions

1. Cook your pasta.
2. While your pasta cooks, heat butter and olive oil in a pan over medium heat.
3. Blister your cherry tomatoes until they burst.
4. Toss the hot pasta into the blistered tomatoes and butter/oil mixture.
5. Mix in the salmon.
6. Add a squeeze of lemon and season with pepper to taste.
7. Serve in a bowl, top with parmesan and green onions, serve immediately.

## Equipment

- pan
- bowl

## Tips

- Hot smoked doesn’t mean spicy, think smoke-roasted.
- The simplest version of the recipe won.
- If you don’t have the hot smoked salmon at your store, you can request it at your local Trader Joe’s.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXF6oCLCZtV/?igsh=MTh0bWp5bW1oczZvdw==
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/2c6b20b9-c8f9-48fa-b794-2c23d985d7b1
- Extracted: 2026-04-16

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