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Pestoccini

Jun12

 

I’m not very good when it comes to making up great names for my dishes but I figured Pestoccini is better than “A Pasta Dish”. 🙂 This past Saturday a friend of mine (Hi Nicholi) had a potluck at his humble abode and I decided to create a new pasta dish. One of our staples for these potlucks is Macaroni & cheese  Macaroni Pie but I wanted to do something different. After looking through many recipes and consulting my “sous chef” (Hi Jeannee), I came up with an easy recipe that tastes great. For my carnivores you can easily substitute the vegetarian sausage with regular sausage or chicken.

Ingredients

  • 2 boxes of Fettuccini pasta
  • 1.5 containers of Pesto (7oz containers)
  • 1/2 jar of  Alfredo sauce
  • 2 heads of Broccoli
  • red, yellow and orange peppers
  • Tofurkey: Italian Sausage 
  • salt and pepper
  • oil

Steps

Begin by bringing a pot of water with oil and salt to a boil. Once your water is boiling add your pasta and cook until tender. While your pasta is cooking, cut and sear your broccoli and peppers. You can season your veges if you like. All I added was a little salt and pepper.  Don’t cook your veges too long because you want them to still have a crunch. About 5-10minutes at the most on a medium high heat. I also seared the “sausage” in another pan at the same time.

Once your pasta is cooked, drain and put it into a bowl. (You can put it into a pot if you would like but there is no more cooking to be done.) In that bowl add your pasta, sausage and veges and stir. Next add your pesto and fettuccini sauce. I used about 1.5 small containers of pesto  and about 1/2 a  jar of  alfredo sauce but you can add as much or as little as you like. Homemade pesto is usually the best but time did not allow for that. (Look out for a blog post soon on making pesto from scratch.) Once the pasta’s taste is to your liking, serve and ENJOY!

 ~ Bon Apetit!

                                   

Lee’s comment corner

Tofurkey products can be found in most major grocery stores. However, I don’t see the Italian sausage as much as their other products.  It can definitely be found at Trader Joes, Safeway and sometimes Shoppers Food Warehouse.