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Pasta With Shrimp, Green Beans, White Beans In Red Pepper Oi

Courses: Main Course
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 tablespoon 15mlExtra-virgin olive oil
3   Garlic cloves - minced
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlDried crushed red pepper
12 oz 340gCooked large shrimp
4   Plum tomatoes - cut into thin wedges
1   Cannellini, white kidney beans - (15 oz) - drained
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
8 oz 227gMedium shell pasta
8 oz 227gGreen beans - trimmed, and
  Cut into 1" lengths
6 tablespoons 90mlChopped fresh basil

Recipe Instructions

Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Add garlic and red pepper and stir 1 minute. Add shrimp and tomatoes; cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. Add cannellini and stir until heated through, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until almost tender. Add green beans; cook until beans and pasta are just tender, about 3 minutes longer. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup cooking liquid.

Return pasta and beans to pot. Stir in shrimp mixture, 4 tablespoons basil and enough pasta cooking liquid to moisten pasta. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl. Sprinkle with remaining basil.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Per serving: calories, 469; total fat, 6 g; saturated fat, 1 g; cholesterol, 129 mg.

Source:
Bon Appetit, October 2000

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