When I saw these conchigliette (small shell shaped pasta I knew that a pea would sit beautifully in each one and so a pasta sauce was thought of before I finished shopping. Today is Tandy Tuesday and you can see Cindy’s contribution here. The main idea behind this concept is to make a pasta dish first and foremost. The second challenge is to use 5 ingredients. This is not always possible. Here I have made pea pasta.
Pea Pasta
Ingredients
- 200 g conchigliette
- 15 mls olive oil
- 1 onion, peeled, cut in half and finely chopped
- 125 g mushrooms, sliced
- 250 mls frozen peas
- 30 mls crème fraîche
Method
- while you get your pasta cooking heat the oil in a large frying pan
- sauté the onions until they are soft
- add the mushrooms and cook until they are soft
- stir in the frozen peas and as soon as they are heated add the crème fraîche
- you may need to loosen the sauce with some of the pasta water
- drain the pasta and toss through the sauce
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I love gardening, and especially when I am planting vegetables. To me, there is nothing better than harvesting what you want to eat. And only when you want to eat it. Can anything get fresher than that? I have 3 beautiful pea plants in my garden. They produce peas with a perfect regularity. If I leave them to get nice and plump I can pod them for fresh peas. But they don’t produce enough for me to use an entire cup. And that is when I turn to frozen. There is nothing wrong with using frozen vegetables in my opinion. And peas are frozen so soon after podding that they may as well be fresh.
Perfect lunch for a sick little girl today, she loves peas, but I think I will add bacon 🙂
bacon and peas go together very well! Hope the dort feels better soon – give her lots of local honey 🙂
Awesomenesssssss girlfriend, I have missed you…can’t wait to catch up again. Looks soooo yummy!! oxoxox
welcome back! Hope you had an awesome time away and that all is calm and good in your life xxx
Wow, this pasta looks so pretty, another for Jess and I to try I think. Hugs. xx
hugs to you! it will be great for school lunches as well 🙂
Dish looks terrific! I though about cooking pasta this coming weekend and I guess I will give this recipe a shot 🙂
great! enjoy 🙂