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Pasta With Roasted Provencal Vegetable Sauce

Type: Pasta
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

1   Eggplant - (16 to 18 oz) - unpeeled, and
  Cut into 1" pieces
1   Onion - cut 1" pieces (large)
2 tablespoons 30mlOlive oil
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
2   Zucchini - trimmed, and (medium)
  Cut into 1" pieces
2   Garlic cloves - minced
1   Seasoned crushed tomatoes with
  Italian herbs - (28 oz)
12 oz 340gPenne pasta
1/4 cup 36g / 1.3ozChopped fresh parsley
1/4 cup 36g / 1.3ozChopped fresh basil
1 tablespoon 15mlChopped fresh rosemary
1 tablespoon 15mlChopped fresh thyme

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Arrange eggplant and onion on large rimmed nonstick baking sheet. Drizzle with oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast vegetables until beginning to brown, stirring occasionally, about 25 minutes. Stir zucchini and garlic into vegetables; continue to roast until all vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes longer. Stir crushed tomatoes into vegetables on baking sheet; roast until heated through, about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Ladle 1/2 cup pasta cooking liquid into small bowl; reserve. Drain pasta. Return pasta to same pot. Add roasted vegetable sauce and all herbs to pasta and toss to blend. Gradually add enough reserved pasta cooking liquid to moisten as desired. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer pasta to bowl and serve.

This recipe yields 6 servings.

Per serving: calories, 330; total fat, 5 g; saturated fat, 1 g; cholesterol, 0.

Source:
Bon Appetit, May 1999

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