Garlic Butter Salmon Pasta

This garlic butter salmon pasta is quick, easy, and uses only a handful of ingredients. Perfect for dinner on a busy weeknight!

I've made this pasta a couple of times now, and I love how fast it comes together. If you're looking for a simple sauce for salmon, butter and garlic make a fabulous combo. I will always stand by that. 😛 Add in the pasta and you've got yourself one tasty meal.

The sauce is easily made while the pasta is cooking. I suggest waiting until the water's boiling before starting the sauce because it doesn't take much time at all.

If you're looking for another super quick weeknight pasta, try my popular tuna garlic pasta.

I had to remake this salmon pasta because I am literally the worst at writing up recipes in a timely fashion. Usually my notes are decent, but sometimes I forget to write down ingredients since I'm usually running around like a chicken with its head cut off. In the case of this recipe, I went to write it up several weeks after I first made it, and I had no idea how much chicken broth I used. I knew chicken broth was in there since I wrote it in the steps, but it didn't say anything in the ingredients column. So, anyway, that meant that I had to redo it. I'm my own worst enemy. That's ok, though, because it was tasty... again. And now I know how much chicken broth should go in there. 🙂 

The chicken broth reduces a lot and adds a delicious savory flavor to this dish. This isn't really a super "saucy" pasta per se, but it's perfectly buttery, and the lemon juice adds a bit of freshness. The olive oil stops the butter from burning while you're searing the salmon.

Salmon tip: I used a piece of fresh sockeye salmon that weighed around half a pound. Anything around that quantity will work. You can buy either skin-on or skin-off salmon. The skin is fine to eat, but some people don’t like it. If you buy a piece with the skin on but don’t want to eat it, I suggest peeling the skin off on the step where you’ve taken the salmon out of the pan - it should peel off easily.

You can use any kind of pasta in this recipe. I've made it with penne and spaghetti, and it's good either way. 

If you love salmon pastas, you may also like my creamy garlic salmon pasta, my lemon dill salmon pasta, this Cajun salmon pasta, or my fresh tomato salmon pasta.

I hope you'll give this easy salmon recipe a try!

Questions? Let me know in the comments below.