Monday, 17 September 2012

Creamy pancetta and pea pasta

I love a pasta dish where the sauce is done in the time it takes to cook the pasta ... this one fits the bill very nicely.

Ingredients - serves 2 toddlers 
1 leek, white part only, quartered and finely chopped
100g cubed pancetta, or smoked streaky bacon 
mugful of frozen green beans, chopped 
mugful of frozen peas 
100ml soy cream
90g dried pasta

Get pasta onto boil (the fusilli I  used took 9 mins to cook) 
In small frying pan sauté pancetta until crisping up (?3 mins), add leek, sauté until soft (?1 min), add frozen beans and peas with a little water if needed until cooked (?3 mins), add soy cream, bring to simmer, drain pasta when cooked and mix into sauce.  Add salt and pepper to taste and some chopped fresh parsley if you have it.



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