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Smoked salmon and cornichon pasta salad recipe

Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw

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Adam Liaw's pasta salad: Smoked salmon and cornichons with yoghurt, sour cream and dill.
Adam Liaw's pasta salad: Smoked salmon and cornichons with yoghurt, sour cream and dill.William Meppem

I think great side dishes make or break a barbecue. You can't get away with just chopping up some lettuce, tomato and cucumber any more. Here's a simple side idea for a sophisticated warm-weather feast. Pasta salads should be more pasta than salad. Leave the spirals on the shelf and use an interesting pasta shape to give this dish a little more elegance.

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Ingredients

  • 500g casarecce pasta

  • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

  • ¼ cup mayonnaise

  • ¼ cup plain yoghurt

  • ¼ cup sour cream

  • grated rind from ½ lemon

  • ¼ cup finely shredded dill

  • 500g smoked salmon, shredded

  • 20 cornichons, halved lengthways

  • 2 tbsp baby capers

  • ½ cup white cocktail onions, halved

  • freshly ground black pepper, to serve

Method

  1. 1. Cook the pasta according to the packet instructions in boiling salted water. Rinse in cold water, drain and toss with the olive oil.

    2. Combine the mayonnaise, yoghurt, sour cream, lemon rind and dill and toss through the pasta until well coated.

    3. Lightly toss the salmon, cornichons, capers and cocktail onions through the pasta and serve with a little freshly ground black pepper.

    Serve at your next barbecue with Adam's garlic beef and anchovy skewers

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Adam LiawAdam Liaw is a cookbook author and food writer, co-host of Good Food Kitchen and former MasterChef winner.

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