Here’s an uptown twist on an old favourite. Pasta bake never tasted so good with hot smoked salmon finished with buttery crumbs and Brie!
Function: Circo Therm®
Smoked Salmon Pasta Bake with Ciabatta and Brie Crust
Ingredients
350g penne
60g butter
1 large leek, sliced
1/2 cup plain flour
5 cups milk
1/3 cup semi sundried tomatoes, thinly sliced
1 tbsp thyme leaves
Grated rind of 1 lemon
Salt and pepper, to taste
300g hot smoked salmon, skin removed and broken into chunky pieces
2 cups rough ciabatta bread crumbs
60g butter, melted
125g triple cream Brie, roughly chopped
Green salad or steamed greens, to serve
Method
Preheat the oven on CircoTherm® to 180°C.
Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil using induction setting 9. Add the penne and boil until just tender. Drain well.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a large saucepan, add the leeks and sauté on induction setting 6 or 7 for 5 minutes or until softened. Add the flour and stir for 1 minute. Add the milk and whisk to combine, increase the heat to 7 or 8 then whisk until the sauce comes to the boil and thickens.
Stir the tomatoes, thyme, lemon and salt and pepper into the sauce, season to taste then stir through the pasta.
Pour the mixture into a 30 x 20cm Pyrex shallow baking dish. Lightly mix through the salmon chunks. Combine the crumbs with the melted butter then scatter over the pasta bake with the chopped Brie. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until heated through and the crumbs are golden. Serve immediately with salad or greens.
Authors Bio
As an experienced home economist and Food Designer Trish has worked over the span of her career in the food and home appliance industry as a demonstrator, teacher, recipe developer and food stylist. For more than 20 years she worked for and later managed the test kitchen for a large FMCG company working on some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic food brands, developing recipes and usages for their products as well as styling mouth watering images for cookbooks and websites. She has also appeared regularly as a brand ambassador on a number of well loved television cooking shows.