Pasta with Peanut Sauce

Total time: 25 minutes
     Peanut butter, sherry, fresh herbs... It's a simple sauce, rich, creamy and full of flavor.  It is meant to be served just barely warm or at room temperature.

 Ingredients:

• 1 cup bite-size pasta, 90gr, 3.2oz whole wheat penne
• 1/2 cup chicken stock, 112gr, 4oz
• 2 tbs peanut butter, 32gr, 1.2oz
• 1 tbs dry sherry, 15gr, .53oz
• 2 tsp soy sauce, 10.5gr, .37oz
• 2 tbs fresh snipped chives
• 2 tbs fresh snipped oregano or marjoram

 Instructions:

• Cook pasta according to package instructions. 
• Snip herbs. 
• In a small saucepan heat chicken stock, peanut butter, soy sauce and sherry, just until peanut butter melts, stirring well to combine. 
• When pasta is done, drain well and put into a bowl. 
• Immediately pour sauce over and stir well to combine. 
• Let rest 5 minutes.  Add herbs, stir well and serve.

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 2            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:  528 / 264 Total Carbohydrates:  68 / 34           Dietary Fiber: 8 / 4 Total Fat:  18 / 9          Saturated Fat: 4 / 2 Cholesterol:  .5 / .25 Protein:  21 / 10.5 Calcium:  54 / 27 Sodium:   924 / 462

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/