Poppin' Pea Pasta
Meals
This makes an easy, peasy, speedy lunch using simple store cupboard ingredients. And you only need one pan. Yippea!
Serves
4Prep
5Cook
10
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
- 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 5 tomatoes, deseeded and finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 200 g/7 oz dried orzo pasta (or any other pasta will do!)
- 500 ml/17 fl oz hot low-salt chicken or vegetable stock
- 150 g/5½ oz frozen peas
- good squeeze of lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons finely grated fresh parmesan cheese
Method
- 1 Heat the oil in a deep sauté pan over a medium-low heat. Add the garlic and tomatoes and cook for 1 minute, until softened. Stir in the oregano
- Add the orzo (or your chosen pasta) and hot stock, mix until combined, then spread the pasta out evenly in the pan and bring the stock to a gentle bubble. Cook, stirring occasionally to prevent the pasta sticking to the bottom of the pan, for 4 minutes or until the pasta is halfway through cooking
- Stir in the peas and add a good squeeze of lemon juice and cook for another 3–4 minutes until the pasta and peas are cooked. You may need to add extra hot stock, you want the pasta to be the right side of moist, without being too dry. Stir in the parmesan until combined
- Spoon the pasta into bowls and serve topped with extra parmesan and a drizzle of olive oil, if you like
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