Veggie Pasta With Gremolata Sauce
By: Flower Patch Fa...
Published: Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 7:27pm

Ingredients




Gremolata Sauce:
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (basically the juice of one lemon)
A handful of finely chopped fresh basil 
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 cloves fresh minced garlic
2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest (I probably used a little more)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
Cooked Rotini pasta 
2 cups fresh sugar snap peas
2 cups fresh broccoli florets
1 pint grape tomatoes - halved
2 tablespoons butter
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Preparation

1 Whisk first 7 ingredients together for sauce. 2 Cook pasta as directed. 3 Add peas and broccoli for last 3 minutes of boil time. 4 Drain and return to pan. 5 Stir butter into pasta and veggies. 6 Add tomatoes and Parmesan. 7 Pour Gremolata sauce over pasta and serve.

About


I know I may be repeating myself here, but I promise, this time, it's for real.
If you eat the following dish, your life will never be the same.
I told the same to my facebook friends and only a handful of them believed me. I have much more hope in ya'll.
Have you ever heard of gremolata sauce?
I hadn't either.
But it didn't take me long to realize that gremolota sauce may in fact be the Holy Grail of my culinary experience. I'm not sure that anything can top it. Not even Chi Chi's Restaurante mild salsa.
(It pained me to write that, but there was no other way to put this into the proper context.)
Here's the skinny:
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Comments:
LasloDemsi

Absolutely casual concurrence