Name: Smoked trout, lemon and chive pasta
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 500 gram filei calabresi or any medium-length pasta; 25 gram butter; 1 leek, trimmed and sliced; 1/3 cup dry white wine; 1/4 cup fish stock; 1 cup cream; 1/3 cup lemon juice; 400 gram whole smoked trout, skin and bones removed, flesh flaked; handful fresh dill, chopped roughly; 1 bunch chives, trimmed and chopped; salt and cracked black pepper

Smoked trout, lemon and chive pasta

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Serves 4

Prep

15M

Cook

15M

Total

30M

Ingredients

500 gram filei calabresi or any medium-length pasta

25 gram butter

1 leek, trimmed and sliced

1/3 cup dry white wine

1/4 cup fish stock

1 cup cream

1/3 cup lemon juice

400 gram whole smoked trout, skin and bones removed, flesh flaked

handful fresh dill, chopped roughly

1 bunch chives, trimmed and chopped

salt and cracked black pepper

Method

1.Cook pasta in saucepan of boiling salted water according to packet instructions, until al dente (about 15 mins). Drain well, return to pan and cover.

2.Melt butter in frying pan over medium-high heat. Add leek and a pinch of salt. Cook, 8 minutes, until leek is tender, but not coloured. Add wine and boil, 2 minutes, until almost evaporated.

3.Reduce heat to medium-low, then add stock, cream, lemon juice, trout, and most of the dill and chives. Simmer very gently, 5 minutes, for flavours to combine. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

4.Stir sauce through pasta. Spoon into bowls and garnish with remaining dill and chives.

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