Insalata di pasta con fagioli
Pasta salad with Borlotti beans
Pasta salad with borlotti beans is a tasty main course you can serve in summer when it's very hot!
Choose it for your daily menu or for a special occasion: alfresco dinner, a slunch or drunch.
The main ingredients are: good-quality pasta, olive oil, eggs, fresh tomatoes, fresh beans, gherkins in vinegar, grilled vegetables in oil, chives, marjoram, parsley.
Here's the recipe!
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- 250 g (8 3/4oz) fresh Borlotti beans, shelled
- 4 ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped
- 5 hard-boiled eggs
- 8 pickled gherkins
- 300 g (10 1/2oz) grilled vegetables in oil (peppers, Italian squashes, aubergines)
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons dried chives
- 1 teaspoon dried marjoram
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 400 g (14 1/4oz) short pasta
- Salt
- Time:
preparation: 30 minutes plus chilling time
cooking: 60 minutes
total time: 70 minutes - Difficulty:
easy recipe - Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 379 (kCal) 19 % GDA (*) - 1584 (kJ)
Protein: 14.4 (g) 29 % GDA
Total fat: 14.4 (g) 21 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 50.8 (g) 19 % GDA
Sugars: 5.4 (g) 6 % GDA
The recipe of pasta salad with Borlotti beans
Begin with beans. Put the beans in a saucepan and cover with cold water; bring to the boil over a medium-high heat. Boil for about 15 minutes or till the interior is soft but the skin firm. Drain very well and put apart.
Prepare the other ingredients. Meanwhile prepare the other ingredients. Slice the grilled vegetables and pickled gherkins in a large bowl. Add the dried aromatic herbs and tomatoes. Peel the eggshell away from the white and separate the yolk from the white. The whites must be chopped finely while the
yolks must be mashed with a fork. Then add all to the bowl. Begin seasoning with olive oil and salt. You can also use some powdered chilli, if you like.
Prepare this mixture an hour before cooking pasta if you have time. Chill it.
Cook the pasta and combine it with the other ingredients. Cook the pasta al dente stage in abundant salted water. Follow our instructions or the instructions on the package. Drain the pasta and run under cold water in order to stop cooking; add to the bowl. Season to taste with salt and the remaining oil and stir gently. Chill until serving for at last 2 hours but bring back to room temperature before serving.
Note
- - You can use frozen borlotti beans too.
- - You have to eat this dish in the same day but you can prepare it some hours ahead to let all ingredients flavor.
- - You can add other ingredients such as capers or artichokes in oil ... but this addition increases nutrition facts
- - You can prepare it for your family (modify the doses if necessary) or for a special occasion. Read more on our blog ...
- - What are the most important rules to make a tasty pasta salad? Read more ...
Healthy eating
- - Pasta salad is a dish rich in ingredients and so it is necessary to calculate the right amount of everything we use not to exceed calories, fat and sugars. In this case the nutrition facts aren't very high. We created it for a complete menu with many other courses.
- - Daily menu. If you like it and want to prepare with the same nutrtion facts use these doses per head: 50 g (1 3/4oz) pasta, a handful of beans, 2 quail eggs (or half an egg), a very big ripe tomato (it seems to have a fuller plate if there are a lot of vegetables ... good trick, isn't it?), a pickled gherkin, a strip of pepper in oil, some little mushrooms in oil, 2 teaspoons olive oil and a lot of aromatic herbs. To complete your menu choose only seasonal fresh fruit. Are you still hungry? crunch seasonal raw vegetables such as carrots, celery, bell peppers.
We remember pasta should be eaten preferably at lunch and the calories eaten at lunch should be 500 - 700 (30 - 35% of energy needs for an adult if his daily needs are about 2000 calories and he correctly divides his calories into 5 micro-meals). - - Special occasion menu. Don't worry about fat, calories, sugars ... it happens rarely, doesn't it?
- - If you want to drink a glass of wine remember you have to add 80-85 kCal per 100 ml.
- - If you want to know more about Italian pasta and its nutrition value read this page.
- - We remember you our original home recipes can be made without salt; there is a combination of flavours that substitutes salt. Other no salt recipes ...
What's the right wine ?
We suggest a rosé wine such as Corvo rosa of Sicily - Italy.
The author Loretta Sebastiani lives in Italy (IT)
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