Garden Veggie Pasta Dish

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 7
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 280.7
  • Total Fat: 12.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 54.8 mg
  • Sodium: 103.1 mg
  • Total Carbs: 33.9 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 3.1 g
  • Protein: 10.8 g

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Introduction

Perfect colorful dish for dinner parties or a healthy dinner. Perfect colorful dish for dinner parties or a healthy dinner.
Number of Servings: 7

Ingredients

    Shrimp, cooked, 25 large
    Peppers, sweet, red, fresh, 1 large
    Sweet peppers (bell), 1 large
    Mushrooms, fresh, 12 medium
    Onions, raw, 1 medium (2-1/2" dia)
    Pasta, cooked, 8 oz
    Pesto Sauce, .125 cup
    Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 4 tbsp
    Butter, salted, 1 tbsp
    *Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, 2 cup cherry tomatoes - halved

Directions

Boil water and cook a 1/2 box of spaghetti. Drain water from pasta.

In a large, deep dish pan, melt a tablespoon of butter. Add a few cloves of mashed garlic for seasoning. Cook shrimp for about 2-3 minutes (if aleady cooked -- more for raw shrimp). Remove shrimp from pan but keep rest of liquid butter/garlic in pan.

Throw in onions and both green/red peppers into the pan and let them sweat down for about 3-5 minutes. Throw in the Mushrooms, cook for about 3 minutes.. Add Shrimp back in the pan. Add Pasta to pan.

In a bowl, mix the pesto and olive oil, and pour over pasta mixture. Simmer for about 5 minutes.

Add cherry tomatoes and cook for about 2 minutes to heat.

Serving Size: Makes seven 1.5 cup servings

Number of Servings: 7

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user KATIE2759.