Marinated grilled vegetables with pasta
A jar of marinated grilled vegetables becomes dinner with pasta and cheese, built on flavours already there. The vegetables come fully cooked; you only warm and toss. Quick and done in twenty minutes.
About 550 calories a serving, 23 g protein, 76 g carbohydrate, 18 g fat. From USDA figures for 83% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.
To buy
- 2 ounces [60g] parmesan or other hard cheese
From your shelf
- one jar [about 500g] marinated grilled eggplant, peppers and zucchini
Staples
- 6 ounces [170g] pasta
- as needed salt
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon oil
- Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and add 6 ounces of pasta; stir and cook until one minute before the package says done, about 9 minutes for most shapes.
- While pasta cooks, mince 2 garlic cloves and warm 1 tablespoon of oil in a wide skillet over medium heat until the oil shimmers.
- Add the minced garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
- Pour the entire jar of marinated vegetables and its brine into the skillet and warm through, stirring gently, about 2 minutes.
- Drain the pasta, reserving 1 cup of its cooking water, and tip it into the skillet with the vegetables.
- Toss the pasta and vegetables together, adding splashes of cooking water as needed to loosen and emulsify the brine into a light sauce, until the pasta is fully tender and coated, about 1 minute.
- Shave 2 ounces of parmesan over the top and divide between two bowls.
Note Swap the pasta for 1 cup of cooked rice or farro. Leftovers keep three days cold and are good at room temperature. Serve with crusty bread and a green salad, or scatter torn basil over the top if you have it.
On the label
GRILLED EGGPLANT, GRILLED RED BELL PEPPERS, GRILLED ZUCCHINI, WATER, SUNFLOWER OIL, EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL, BALSAMIC VINEGAR (WINE VINEGAR, COOKED GRAPE MUST), SALT, WHITE WINE VINEGAR, PARSLEY, OREGANO, GARLIC POWDER, GARLIC, SUGAR, VEGETABLE FIBER (CITRUS FIBER, BAMBOO FIBER), BLACK PEPPER
Green Giant, frozen vegetables, serving 123 GRM, package 13 oz. Ingredients as printed on the label.
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Cooks as zucchini, eggplant. Half of it left? Use up the zucchini.