Warm Courgette Pasta Salad / Peanut Ginger Dressing

Total time: 30 minutes
     Everyone looks for new, interesting ways to use the summer abundance of zucchini.  With the red peppers, it makes a colorful, warm, summer salad, especially good with the slightly hot/spicy Peanut Ginger Dressing.

 Ingredients:

• 1 zucchini (courgette), about 8" long, (20cm), 300gr,  10.5oz
• 2 cloves garlic, 6gr,  .2oz
• 1 red onion, 100gr,  3.5oz
• 1/2 red pepper, 80gr,  2.8oz
• 1 tsp olive oil, 4.5gr,  .16oz
• 1 tsp sesame or walnut oil, 4.5gr,  .16oz
• 1 tsp soy sauce, 5.3gr,  .19oz
• 1 cup pasta, penne, rigatoni, 90gr,  3.2oz
• Peanut Ginger Dressing
• 4 tsp peanut butter, creamy, 22gr,  .77oz
• 4 tsp Dijon-style mustard, 20gr,  .7oz
• 2 tsp soy sauce, 10.6gr,  .37oz
• 2 tsp sesame or walnut oil, 9gr,  .32oz
• 4 tsp olive oil, 18gr,  .64oz
• 4 tsp white Balsamic vinegar, 5.3gr,  .18oz
• 1/4 tsp powdered ginger, .45gr,  .016oz

 Instructions:

• Cook pasta according to package directions.  When done drain.
• Slice onion, mince garlic.
• Slice the red pepper the long way then cut slices in half.
• Cut zucchini in half the long way, then into 1/4" (6cm) slices.
• Heat oils in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.  Add onion, sauté 5 minutes.
• Add garlic, pepper and zucchini; turn heat to medium and sauté 8 - 10 minutes longer (or however long you want).
• When done to your liking add Dressing and pasta, toss to combine and serve.
• Peanut Ginger Dressing
• Combine peanut butter, mustard, ginger and soy sauce in small bowl.
• Whisk to combine completely.
• Add vinegar and oils, whisk well. 

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Nutrition Information    Peanut Ginger Dressing Recipe serves 2            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:   390 / 195 Total Carbohydrates:  7 / 3.5           Dietary Fiber:  2 / 1 Total Fat:  110 / 55          Saturated Fat:  5 / 2.5 Cholesterol:  0 / 0 Protein: 2 / 1 Calcium:  26 / 13 Sodium:  1004 / 502

Nutrition Information  Complete Salad with Dressing Recipe serves 2            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:  896 / 448 Total Carbohydrates:  94 / 47           Dietary Fiber: 14 / 7 Total Fat: 156 / 78          Saturated Fat: 6 / 3 Cholesterol:  0 / 0 Protein:  19 / 9.5 Calcium:  146 / 73 Sodium:  1352 / 677

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/