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Pasta With Peas And Bacon

Type: Pasta
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

3/4 lb 340g / 11ozTubular pasta, such as gemelli, rotini
4   Bacon slices
1 1/2 cups 355mlFrozen peas
1   Garlic clove
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlSea salt
  Grated zest of 1 lemon - (abt 1 tspn)
1 tablespoon 15mlExtra-virgin olive oil - (to 2 tbspns)
  Grated Parmesan cheese

Recipe Instructions

Bring a pot of water to boil for pasta.

Chop bacon and cook in a heavy skillet, stirring, until crisp. Transfer bacon with a slotted spoon to a plate lined with paper towels and discard fat.

Add 3/4 pound pasta to water and cook until al dente. While pasta is cooking, simmer 1 1/2 cups peas in about 1/3 cup water, covered, until tender, about 3 minutes. Put pea mixture in a blender. Pound garlic and salt to a paste in mortar and pestle and add to peas with zest of lemon, 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil, and about 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan. Blend pea mixture until smooth, adding some of pasta liquid if sauce is too thick to blend smoothly, and pour into a 12-inch nonstick skillet.

Just before pasta is done, ladle out and reserve about 1 cup pasta water. Drain pasta in a colander and add pasta to pea sauce in skillet. Toss pasta in sauce over moderate heat until well coated, about 1 to 2 minutes, adding some of reserved pasta liquid, if sauce begins to dry out.

Transfer pasta mixture to a serving bowl and sprinkle with bacon and more grated Parmesan.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
COOKING LIVE with Sara Moulton - Recipe courtesy of Kempe Miles Minifie - From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # CL-9148)

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