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Pasta with Beets
Posted by arif on 31 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Pasta, Recipe, Vegetables, Vegetarian
This is one of those super simple summer time dishes that I totally love, especially since I don’t get to do as much cooking as I used to, it’s really a treat to make something that tastes this good, but takes so little time. We’re getting beets like crazy from our CSA right now, so this was a very timely recipe to find on the interwebs.
Pasta with Beets
Here’s the recipe, with changes that I made noted:
Ingredients:
* 1 tbspn butter
* 2 tblspn olive oil
* 2 minced garlic cloves (I used 3 or 4 along with a small onion)
* 3 cups (packed) coarse grated peeled raw beets (I used a combination of red and gold cause that’s what we had)
* 1/2 tspn cayenne pepper
* tblspn lemon juice
* packet linguine, fettucine, tagliatelle..
* 8 oz sour cream (we use low-fat) [I used creme fraiche!]
* 6 tblspn chopped Italian parsley
Directions:
* Melt butter with oil over medium heat in a non-stick skillet.
* Add garlic [and onion if you're using it] and saute till pale golden.
* Add beets and cayenne.
* Mix together, cover, and then saute over medium-low heat for 12 mins.
* Cook pasta while the beets are cooking.
* Stir lemon juice in with beets
* Drain pasta, add sour cream, parsley and beet mixture and stir together.
Some thoughts:
1) This needs salt and pepper - it should be obvious but in case it isn’t to you, I’ve said it. Salt and pepper this dish
2) Something is missing. C thought mint would be a nice compliment, I thought some sort of pork fat (pancetta? bacon?) would be nice, as would fresh corn, which made C think of a corn and mint relish spooned on top. Anyhow, play with it, see what you come up with.
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