Description
Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo with Salmon is a delicious dinner for the entire family made with a creamy sauce of cream cheese, milk, garlic and parmesan cheese mixed with fettuccine pasta and topped with salmon cooked in Mazola® Corn Oil and added peas.
Ingredients
Pan-seared Salmon
- 1 Tablespoon Mazola® Corn Oil
- 16 ounces salmon fillet, skin on
- salt
- ground pepper
Lighter Alfredo Sauce
- 1 Tablespoon Mazola® Corn Oil
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 3/4 cup peas, frozen
- 1 cup 1% milk
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasnoning
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
- 8 ounce cream cheese block, cubed
- 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo with Salmon
- Lighter alfredo sauce
- Pan-seared salmon
- 16 ounces fettuccine pasta
- fresh parsley garnish, chopped (optional)
- shredded parmesan cheese garnish (optional)
Instructions
Pan-seared Salmon
- De-bone the salmon fillet if needed.
- Heat up a non-stick pan on the stovetop to a medium heat.
- Season salmon fillet with salt and pepper.
- Drizzle 1 Tablespoon Mazola® Corn Oil into the hot pan and place salmon fillet in skin side up.
- Cook for 4 minutes and then flip.
- Cook another 6 minutes covered with a lid.
- Remove from pan and set to the side while sauce cooks.
Lighter Alfredo Sauce
- Use the same pan you cooked the salmon in, just wipe out clean and then place back on stovetop on a medium heat.
- Drizzle 1 Tablespoon Mazola® Corn Oil in pan.
- Add frozen peas and give the pan a shake to cover the peas in the corn oil.
- Add minced garlic and give the pan a few more shakes.
- Immediately add milk and chicken broth and then the Italian seasoning, salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer.
- Stir in cream cheese and whisk until sauce is smooth.
- Remove from heat and stir in parmesan cheese.
Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo with Salmon
- As you begin the salmon and sauce, cook the pasta according to the instructions on the box.
- Drain pasta and add to the sauce. Mix together to fully cover pasta in alfredo sauce.
- Tear apart the salmon into large chunks using a fork and add on top of pasta.
- Garnish with chopped parsley and shredded parmesan cheese.
Notes
*a very thin salmon fillet may take short time to cook while a very thick fillet may take a little longer.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 15
- Category: DInner
- Method: Stovetop