Vegetarian

Vegetable Pasta is for Dinner.

Vegetable Pasta takes 5 minutes to prepare.

Vegetable Pasta takes 30 minutes to cook.

Vegetable Pasta makes 7 servings.

The ingredients for Vegetable Pasta are:

2 tsp. olive oil
2 Tbsp. onion
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
16 oz. sliced white mushrooms
3 plum tomatoes
1-14.5 oz can diced tomatoes, no salt added
1-15.5 oz can white beans, rinsed & drained
1-12 oz box whole grain pasta (I used Rocconto 8 whole grain macaroni)
2 bunches of broccoli, cut into florets
Seasonings of choice, I used about 1.5 tsp of each:
Garlic powder
Dried basil
Dried thyme
Ground marjoram
Black pepper
Dried rosemary
Dried oregano

Here is how you make Vegetable Pasta:

Boil water. Heat olive oil, add onion, garlic, & red pepper flakes. When fragrant, add mushrooms. Cook over medium-high heat until brown. Cook pasta, adding broccoli to pasta water during last 3 minutes of cooking (earlier if you want broccoli cooked softer). Add seasonings of choice to mushroom mixture. Add fresh & canned tomatoes. Add beans. Combine with drained pasta and broccoli when finished. Serve.Serving Size: Makes about 7 2-cup servingsNumber of Servings: 7.5Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LIZZA28.

The nutritional information for Vegetable Pasta is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 7
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 284.2

• Total Fat: 2.8 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 246.4 mg
• Total Carbs: 50.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 15.3 g
• Protein: 16.1 g