Vegetable purée with pasta, a delicious first course to enjoy hot on cold winter days and at room temperature on warm summer days. You can prepare the vegetable purée with any pasta shape you prefer or try the vegetable purée with rice, which is also very good. I love minestrone, so I alternate between pasta with vegetable purée and VEGETABLE MINESTRONE WITH PASTA. You can prepare the vegetable purée using either fresh minestrone or frozen minestrone as you prefer. To purée the minestrone vegetables, I prefer using the food mill because this way the purée will be very smooth, without any small lumps of peas or beans or vegetable fibers. Alternatively, you can use a hand blender. Now, let’s see how to make the vegetable purée with pasta, and if you try it, let me know. Barbara
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Inexpensive
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for preparing vegetable purée with pasta
- Cooked minestrone
- 200 small pasta
- to taste salt
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
- to taste grated cheese
Tools
- Food Mill
- Hand Blender
How to prepare vegetable purée with pasta
Let’s start preparing the vegetable purée with pasta. After preparing the minestrone with fresh vegetables or the frozen minestrone, purée it with the food mill or hand blender, as you prefer, directly in a non-stick pot with high sides. Set aside the minestrone broth as it will be used to thin the vegetable purée.
Place the pot on the stove and cover it with a lid. When the purée starts to boil, add the pasta, stir, and cover with the lid. Stir often as it tends to stick to the bottom of the pot and add the minestrone broth to achieve the desired consistency. Cook the pasta, the cooking time varies according to the shape.
Once the pasta is cooked, turn off the heat, adjust the salt and consistency by adding broth if necessary, and serve in plates, adding grated cheese and extra virgin olive oil. Serve the vegetable purée with pasta hot or at room temperature.
How to store vegetable purée with pasta
Store it in the refrigerator for 2 days
