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Curried Salmon Pasta

This Curried Salmon Pasta checks all the boxes: it's healthy, quick, and super frugal!

Course Main Course
Keyword curry, pasta, salmon
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  • 1 14 oz can wild salmon
  • 1/2 lb penne
  • 2-3 tsp red curry paste
  • whole milk

Instructions

  1. Cook the pasta, drain, return to pot.

  2. Add curry paste (to taste) and milk until a creamy (not runny) consistency is attained. Add salmon and blend with a fork to break up the fish. Sample, and add more curry and milk if needed. Heat through.

Recipe Notes

Price breakdown of ingredients:

  • canned salmon: $1.99 at Aldi
  • penne: $.89/lb at Aldi
  • curry paste: $3.99/4 oz at Meijer

This comes to about $1.00 per serving ($4.00 to make, and we got two meals out of it!) Not bad.

You can also get red curry paste in bulk from Amazon.