Pasta Primavera

Italian

Pasta Primavera

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Pasta Primavera is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium High fiber Vegetarian Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the penne until al dente, reserving a cup of pasta water.

  2. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large skillet and cook the carrot, bell pepper, and asparagus until crisp-tender, about 5 minutes.

  3. Add the zucchini, peas, and garlic and cook 3 minutes more.

  4. Stir in the cherry tomatoes until they begin to burst.

  5. Pour in the cream and parmesan and simmer briefly to make a light sauce.

  6. Add the drained pasta and toss, loosening with pasta water as needed.

  7. Finish with basil, a squeeze of lemon, and salt, and serve.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pasta Primavera, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pasta Primavera carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pasta Primavera
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy Yes Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten Yes Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
500 kcal
Protein
18 g
Carbs
63 g
Fat
20 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
5 g
Sodium
460 mg
Saturated fat
8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pasta Primavera takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in spring, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.

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