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Filled Pasta with Pesto Primavera

Published by Today's Parent on 5/1/2009
The flavour of this simple salad rests on the quality of the ingredients, so buy the best pasta and pesto sauce you can find. Look for pasta that is filled with mushrooms or spinach along with cheese
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup (250 mL) thin asparagus, tough ends snapped off, and cut into 1 in (2.5 cm) lengths
  • 1 pkg (350 - 500 g) fresh or frozen cheese-filled pasta, such as ravioli, agnolotti or tortellini
  • ¼ - ⅓ cup (50 - 75 mL) pesto sauce, preferably the refrigerated kind
  • 2 tbsp (30 mL) extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 cup (250 mL) grape tomatoes, halved
  • 1 - 2 tbsp (15 - 30 mL) water reserved from cooking pasta
  • Salt and pepper

Directions

  1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add asparagus and cook for 1 to 2 minutes or until tender-crisp. Scoop asparagus from the water with a slotted spoon and set aside.
  2. Add pasta to boiling water and cook according to package directions until al dente. Drain pasta, reserving a small amount of the cooking water.
  3. In a large bowl or storage container, toss the pasta, while still hot, with pesto sauce (start with ¼ cup/50 mL and add more if needed), olive oil and tomatoes until pasta is coated and tomatoes have cooked slightly from the heat of the pasta. Add a little of the reserved pasta cooking water to thin the sauce if necessary. Add asparagus and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Sorry, there is no nutrition information available for this recipe.

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