Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Pasta with Broccoli-Herb cream sauce

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound pasta (we used radiatore)
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half (or quarters, if you want to be fancy)
  • 1 cup chopped broccoli, steamed
  • 1 oz chevre
  • 3 tbsp chopped chives
  • 1/2 cup skim milk
  • 3 tbsp dried parsley
  • 1/4-1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
  • salt and pepper, to taste
Boil water and cook the pasta. Set aside.
Steam the broccoli in a pot until it is tender. Add the chevre and the milk, and cook on low-ish heat until the chevre has melted.
Add the chives, parsley, and fresh basil. Stir until well-incorporated.
Simmer. When the milk has thickened a little, remove the sauce from heat and transfer it to a blender. Blend until smooth.
Add salt and pepper to taste. Mix with pasta and top with cherry tomatoes. Eat.

Thoughts: You'll probably need to add a reasonable amount of salt to the sauce, but other than that, delicious. Just fantastic. And you get your vegetables too. I hate eating whole vegetables with my pasta because it ruins the pasta. But if you chop everything up and put it in a sauce, it's like you aren't eating vegetables at all, and that's something we can all get behind.

Disaster Index: 1/10

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