Although I prefer a low-carb diet, I love pasta, especially angel hair.

I often make my scrumptious pasta dishes by modifying Jamie Oliver’s great pasta recipes. It is a recipe I saw on Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders on Amazon, and have been making it ever since.

About Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders

In this show, the British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver shares tips and hacks for making simple, delicious meals in one pan and reducing the amount of dishes. (You need a Britbox subscription to see this show on Amazon Prime.)

Here’s the original recipe for this dish on his website.

Jamie’s Smoked Salmon Pasta Recipe

Original Ingredients

• 125 g fresh lasagne sheets
• 2 spring onions
• 80 g spinach
• 60 g smoked salmon (2 slices)
• ½ a lemon
• 5 g Parmesan cheese
• olive oil
• 1 tablespoon cottage cheese
• optional: extra virgin olive oil

Smoked Salmon Pasta à la Miki

I substitute a few ingredients to make this dish.

• Lasagne sheets with capellini
• Cottage cheese with Ricotta cheese
• I skip Parmesan and add a dash of Fresh Basil Pesto Genovese sauce from Seggiano. 

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Instead of slicing a big filet, I use 3 oz of Smoked Wild Alaskan Salmon Pieces and Trims from Trader Joe’s.

I follow Jamie’s cooking method except the timing for adding Ricotta cheese which was added along with pesto sauce before turning off the heat.

Miki’s Cooking Method

1. Sauté smoked salmon pieces in olive oil with baby spinach, chopped green onion or dried onion chips, a pinch of lemon zest, pepper, and salt. 
2. Set what’s in the pan aside on a plate once they’re heated.  
3. Cook capellini only for 2 minutes by adding enough boiling water to cover them and a pinch of salt in the same pan used for sautéing the smoked salmon.
4. When capellini is 80% cooked and the water is mostly gone from the pan, add ricotta cheese and pesto sauce along with the sautéd salmon mix and heat for about 30 seconds. 
5. Turn off the heat, squeeze on some lemon juice, and serve. Add capers or basil leaf to taste.

This is one of my favorite dishes to cook for my friends for lunch or light supper.