Sunday, April 10, 2016

Pasta Primavera

A simple and delicious pasta dish. This dish gives the best sides to being healthy, hardy, and delicious. Also the skills needed to prep and create this dish is very minimal becuase there are no complex ingredients or cook style. Many of the ingredients can be found in a normally stocked kitchen.
Ingredients:
  • 4 oz. pancetta or bacon coarsely chopped
  • half of red onion sliced thin
  • 1/4 cup of frozen peas
  • 8 oz. of sliced mushrooms (button mushroom/ any)
  • 1 medium zucchini, halved length wise then sliced 1/4 in. thick
  •  1 lb. of rigatone pasta
  • 2 tbsp. unsalted butter or 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese
  • salt and pepper to taste 
Steps:
  1. in a large skillet saute pancetta or bacon until halfway cooked
  2. add mushrooms
  3. continue to saute for 5 min.
  4. add zucchini and onion
  5. simmer until zucchini and onion are soft 
  6. warm 4 quarts of water to boil, then add salt
  7. cook 1 lb. of rigatone 
  8. lower heat in skillet add in frozen peas and cover
  9. when the pasta is cooked add 1/4 to 1/2 cups to saute skillet 
  10. add butter or cream
  11. increase heat slightly
  12. mix butter or cream throughly in the skillet to coat the ingredients
  13. add pasta and sprinkle cheese
I always enjoy when my dad makes this dish for my entire family becuase there are so many parts of the dish that everybody likes in the family. It may seem cooking this dish is a hard task, but it just requires effort. There is a abundance of flavors also going on, and the bacon or pancetta flavor that is given off makes a tasty dish, becuase so many people love bacon.

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