Pasta with Sauteed Veggies

Posted in Food Recipes, Health, Health Archive | Sunday, February 7th, 2010

I made this for dinner on Friday night for the big NYC snowstorm that never happened…

Ingredients:

2 cups rigati pasta (you can use ziti, or rotelle even shells if you want, try whole grain!)
4 baby portabello mushrooms
15 grape tomatoes (or 8 cherry)
1/2 med onion
1/2 large green pepper
1/2 cup salsa
2 tbsp olive oil (first cold pressed extra virgin)
2 tbsp butter
2 cloves garlic

Makes five 3/4 cup servings. 1 serving = 220cal

Seasonings: chopped fresh is always best, but dry is just fine
- rosemary
- thyme
- oregano
- garlic powder
- salt
- pepper

What you’ll need:
- 1 pot for the pasta
- 1 large saucepan for veggies
- 1 small pan for sauteeing mushrooms

I’ve made this a bunch of times before, but I JUST realized that the trick to making this simple dish successfully is the ORDER in which you cook the ingredients.

Directions:

Pour 3 cups of water into the pot and set to boil.
While the water is getting hot, chop veggies, onion and garlic.
While chopping the veggies, add olive oil to the large saucepan till hot.
Cook onion and peppers in oil in large saucepan until the peppers are tender and the onion is clear.
While the onion and peppers are cooking, put butter into the small pan and melt.
Add pasta to the now boiling water. In the large saucepan, add the tomatoes and all of the seasonings, (just shake a little of each on the mixture and stir, we’ll be adding more in later).
Coat onion, peppers and tomatoes in spices for a minute, then add the salsa.
Stir, cover and simmer. Add the mushrooms to the small pan and sautee with garlic powder.
Drain the pasta, and run cold water over it. Then toss pasta into the saucepan with with vegetable mixture and stir.
Add some more seasonings to taste and serve immediately.

Hope you like!

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2 Responses to “Pasta with Sauteed Veggies”

SisterBoyd says:

February 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM

This sounds good since I’m trying to add some meatless days to my diet. Thanks!
Savvy says:

February 9, 2010 at 9:58 PM

You could add meat to this one too if you’d like, or lean poultry.