Pasta with Ham and Peas
Total time: 25 minutes
This is such a colorful pasta dish it makes my happy just looking at it. Using frozen peas and deli ham this is ready faster than you can cook the pasta. A bit of creamy goat cheese brings it all together.
Ingredients:
- 10oz (300gr) ham, 300gr, 10.6oz
- 1 red bell pepper, 160gr, 5.6oz
- 1 onion, 145gr, 5.2oz
- 1 tbs olive oil, 13.5gr, .48oz
- 1 1/2 cup peas, 240gr, 8.5oz
- 1/2 cup chicken stock, 120gr, 4.2oz
- 2.5 - 3 oz creamy goat cheese a bit more than 1/2 container Chavrie or Chevraux, 90gr, 3.1oz
- 1 tbs Dijon-style mustard, 15gr, .52oz
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1oz (30gr) shredded cheese, 30gr, 1oz
- 1 cup dried pasta, - penne, rigatoni, 90gr, 3.2oz
Instructions:
- Cook pasta according to package directions.
- Roughly chop onion and pepper.
- Cut ham into bite-size pieces.
- Heat oil in large skillet. Add onion and pepper and sauté until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add ham, paprika and sauté 5 minutes longer.
- Add chicken stock, thyme, mustard and stir to combine.
- Add peas, cover and simmer until peas are tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add goat cheese and stir until melted and combined.
- Add pasta and stir to coat.
- Sprinkle with cheese and serve.
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Nutrition Information |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
