Gluten-free fusilli with pesto, potatoes, & green beans

Posted on February 27, 2008 by bipolarlawyercook| 9 Comments

GF Pasta with pesto, pota­toes, & green beans, orig­i­nally uploaded by Bipo­lar­Lawyer­Cook.

Lest there be any ques­tion of my abil­ity and/or will­ing­ness to cook a veg­e­tar­ian meal, I present to you tonight’s sup­per, based upon an idea from a Mark Bittman recipe in one of his The Min­i­mal­ist cook­books.  It’s pretty straight­foward, and made with mostly pantry items– Trader Joe’s brown rice fusilli, tossed with a jul­li­enned Boston Organ­ics potato, browned in olive oil, salt and pep­per, along with frozen green beans.  Before adding the pasta to the saute pan, I added some cream I hap­pened to have in the fridge and some Amore pesto-in-a-tube, adjusted the sea­son­ing, and added the pasta to toss & coat.  The gluten free pasta soaks up sauce even faster than its wheaten cousin, so I ended up adding a ladle-full of the (salted) pasta water to moisten things up.

It was so savory I didn’t grate any cheese on it.  If you don’t have cream, just add the pesto with some pasta water– it’ll still taste wonderful.

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9 Responses to Gluten-free fusilli with pesto, potatoes, & green beans

  1. Al | February 27, 2008 at 10:11 pm |

    OMG this looks amaz­ing. I think I’ll be try­ing it out this weekend!

  2. nyjlm | February 27, 2008 at 10:48 pm |

    mmm. looks very yummy.

  3. alejna | February 27, 2008 at 10:54 pm |

    Yummy. I love me some veg­e­tar­ian pasta. I’m not sure I’ve had potato on my pasta before. But see­ing as I love pota­toes in just about any­thing, I bet I’d love it. And pesto and cream are my friends, too.

  4. Jenn @ Juggling Life | February 27, 2008 at 11:22 pm |

    I love Trader Joe’s pantry sta­ples! That looks delish.

  5. Janet | February 27, 2008 at 11:32 pm |

    I’m glad I’m stuffed right now. Gonna try that one this weekend!

  6. Cheri | February 28, 2008 at 1:51 am |

    Wow! I’m hun­gry for pasta and green beans. I will dream about them.

  7. LawyerChick | February 28, 2008 at 10:32 am |

    That looks great. I will have to try impro­vis­ing again. These days work is so crazy we end up order­ing all the time.

  8. savia | February 28, 2008 at 12:30 pm |

    Yet another thing I’m going to add to the list of things I am going to eat once I’m allowed to chew again.

  9. Angelina | February 29, 2008 at 1:34 pm |

    I never doubted your abil­ity to cook a great veg­e­tar­ian meal! (Not that you were speak­ing of me nec­es­sar­ily) This looks so good! I don’t have those par­tic­u­lar noo­dles but this is one of those recipes that seems so easy to just make what­ever sub­sti­tu­tions you have and you’ll still get some­thing great.

    I’m hun­gry now!

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