Penne Primavera with Spring Vegetables, Lemon and Parmesan

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Source: Serious Eats — J. Kenji López-Alt, Pasta Primavera (Pasta With Spring Vegetables).

Pasta primavera · Italian American

A pasta primavera (pasta with spring vegetables) recipe for 6 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.

Prep10 min
Cook35 min
Total45 min
DifficultyEasy
Per serving579 kcal
Servings6Recipe makes 6
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GlutenCrustaceansEggsFishPeanutsSoybeansMilkTree nutsCeleryMustardSesameSulphitesLupinMolluscs

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Method

  1. 1

    Cool. Shuck beans plus peas off pods, keeping beans plus peas separate if using fava beans plus peas in their pods. Discard pods. Bring a big pot of salted water to a boil plus prepare an ice bath. Working using one vegetable after another, blanch favas, peas, asparagus, snap peas, plus broccolini in boiling water for 1 minute every, move to ice bath to cool, next move to a paper towel–lined tray and blot dry. Take out and discard skin from each individual fava bean. Stand vegetables aside. Empty pot, refill it using fresh water, season well with salt, and return to a boil. In a 3- to 4-quart saucier or a 30 cm skillet, heat butter, olive oil, garlic, plus pine nuts over a low flame till lightly sizzling while that is happening. Cook, swirling pan constantly, till pine nuts just start to brown plus garlic aroma is very strong. Don't let butter brown; remove it from heat now and then if it starts in order to sizzle too rapidly. Discard garlic cloves. Tip in blanched vegetables to pan plus toss to mix. Remove from heat. Add pasta and cook till a little short of al dente, around 1 minute total for most fresh pasta (see note) when water is boiling. Tip off the liquid pasta, reserving 1 cup cooking liquid. Move pasta to pan using vegetables plus tip in crème fraîche, lemon zest, lemon juice, basil, plus parsley. Stand over a high flame and cook, mixing plus tossing constantly plus adjusting the consistency as necessary using a few splashes of the starchy pasta water, till liquid reduces to a silky sauce. The sauce should coat the pasta plus leave a silky trail upon this bottom of the pan when you drag one wooden spoon through it. Off heat, mix in a generous shaving of fresh Parmigiano-Reggiano and taste and add salt if it needs it with salt and pepper. Eat at once, drizzling with olive oil and scattering using freshly ground black pepper plus grated Parmigiano-Reggiano at the table.

Storage

Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.

EU nutrition claims

  • Low salt: 0.23 g salt per 100 g (limit ≤ 0.3 g)

Per 100 g of the finished dish, worked out from the nutrition per serving and the lowest likely cooked weight (about 111 g a serving), so the true values are, if anything, lower. Thresholds from the Annex to EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. How we decide

Free sugars

Sugar (daily guide)

0 g per serving

0 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 0 % of the ideal 25 g

Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO

Equipment

  • mixing bowl
  • scales
  • saucepan

Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central

Per servingAmount
Energy579 kcal
Protein17.2 g
Carbohydrate57.9 g
of which sugars6.8 g
of which free sugars0 g
Fat32.8 g
of which saturates11.7 g
Fibre5.9 g
Salt0.25 g

Protein per 100 kcal

3 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving

Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values