Recipe: Healthy Summer Skillet Pasta
July 26, 2012
Ingredients:
- 1 pound of pork sausage or ground beef
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 tsp of soy sauce
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1 tsp of freshly ground black pepper
- 3 green onions chopped
- 1 package of dried pasta
- 4-5 Roma tomatoes diced (or vine tomatoes)
- 10-12 large curly kale leaves, rolled and sliced into ribbons (remember to remove the stem)
- 1 to 1.5 cups of water
- 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese
Directions:
- Heat the olive oil in the pan on medium, add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add the room temperature meat to a large skillet. Season with the soy sauce, salt and pepper. I use the ground pork sausage we get from our CSA Old Pine Farm which is fantastic. If you don’t have access to high quality ground pork, I would use 80-20 ground beef.
- Add the tomatoes and continue to cook the meat until it is well browned.
- Add the water and dry pasta and mix it into the meat mixture. Cover for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. The pasta will cook in the juices and sauce created by the meat, tomatoes and water.
- Uncover the skillet and stir in the kale until wilted.
- Stir in the green onions and lightly sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Serve.
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that is a very interestingly shaped pasta. Looks good!
~Lisha
I have never seen that pasta shape before.
it’s so unique isn’t it? They sell it my grocery store but I think you can get it from the website: http://www.maestripastaiusa.com
That looks fantastic!!!! Cooking it this weekend! Keep em coming!
thanks
This sounds so good! What type of pasta is that?
they sell it at my local grocery store. I’m not sure what type – I bought it because it sort of looks like squid or something. The website on the back of the bag is http://www.maestripastaiusa.com. I use about 9 ouces dry or 4 cups.