I’ve always loved pasta with a creamy touch and fish in it. It’s a combo I find absolutely amazing. The pasta getting coated, the sauce clinging, the fish flaking delicately with each bite. Most recipes like this use salmon, which is good, but I wanted to get off the beaten path. Rainbow trout is a local Quebec fish found in practically every grocery store chain, and it has a similar texture to salmon with a slightly more delicate taste. And then there’s fennel. This underused vegetable that deserves so much more recognition. Good fresh, good cooked, just aniseed enough. It’s the ingredient that transforms an ordinary pasta dish into a memorable pasta dish.<\/p>\n
The first time I made this recipe, I messed up two things at the same time: I overcooked my pasta AND I overcooked my trout. Result: mushy pasta and dry fish that crumbled into bits in the sauce. Not the result we’re aiming for. The lesson: watch these two cooking processes like a hawk. For the pasta, take it out of the water when it’s really al dente. It will continue cooking in the sauce. For the trout, 4 to 5 minutes in large chunks is enough, no more. The flesh should stay just cooked, almost pink in the center, so it remains juicy when you incorporate it at the end. The other detail: stir gently at the final step so you don’t crush the fish.<\/p>\n
This recipe is exactly the kind of versatile dish you want to have in your repertoire. You’re having friends over Saturday night with a bottle of well-chilled white wine? Pasta-fish-creamy-pecorino, nobody’s going to complain eating these beautiful ingredients. You have a date to impress without looking like you worked too hard? This entertaining recipe makes an impact without requiring you to play starred chef. Weeknight and you want something out of the ordinary without complications? Thirty minutes flat, ingredients that are easy to find, a result that tastes like heaven. It’s the embodiment of my impressive recipes without stress, the kind of dish you pull out repeatedly because it works every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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