Pasta de la What’s In The Fridge

Posted by trish on Feb 1, 2012 in Eat | 1 comment

Penne with Broccoli, Peas, Pine Nuts, Goats Cheese Feta and some leftover herb/breadcrumb mix from when I made Cheat’s Chicken Parmagiana.

This actually turned out quite well.  I made a egg/cream sauce, so it was like a carbonara (one egg, 20oml of Philadelphia Cream For Cooking, whisked together).

While the pasta was cooking I toasted the pinenuts a frying pan and when they were done I removed them and toasted the breadcrumbs in the same pan.

I steamed the broccoli separately but in hingsight I could have tossed the florets and the frozen peas into the boiling penne when it had a couple of minutes left to cook.

After I strained the pasta/veg, I put it back in the pot and poured the egg/cream over it and tossed it gently until the sauce had coated everything.

I chopped the big cubes of marinated goats cheese feta into bits and sprinkled it on top.

I reckon this would be sensational if you started by pan-frying some pancetta or really good bacon.