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  • Makes 6 cups

This 25-minute meal can be made entirely in the microwave. Perfect for cooking in a hotel room or dorm room, this easy pasta primavera recipe only requires a handful of ingredients, a microwave, and less than 30 minutes. Tender carrots, broccoli, bell pepper, and tomato bring bursts of juicy flavor to the hearty pasta, which is sprinkled with savory Italian seasoning. A crunchy garnish of slivered almonds or pine nuts brings the perfect finishing touch to this quick and satisfying meal you can make on-the-go.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup dry whole wheat penne pasta
  • 1 cup chopped carrots
  • 2 cups ½-inch broccoli florets
  • 1 cup chopped yellow bell pepper
  • 1 15-oz. can diced tomatoes, undrained
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning, crushed
  • Sea salt, to taste
  • Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 2 tablespoons slivered almonds or pine nuts

Instructions

  1. In a microwave-safe bowl or microwave rice cooker combine pasta and 5 cups water. Microwave 5 minutes. Add carrots; microwave 3 minutes. Add broccoli and bell pepper; microwave 3 minutes more. Drain any excess water from bowl; keep warm.
  2. In a separate microwave-safe bowl combine tomatoes, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning. Cover and microwave 5 minutes. Pour over pasta mixture. Season with salt and black pepper. Toss to combine. Garnish with nuts.

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Varun Sharma1 month ago
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As a flight attendant, I love recipes that you can just do up in a hotel room. You would need a hotel room that has a kitchenette where dishes and utensils are provided. Nonetheless, I tried this at home. I thought I’d tweak it with chick pea pasta rather than whole wheat and it came out too mushy. Next time I’ll try it as the recipe says, with whole wheat pasta.

JenE6 months ago
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I’m even “short-cuttier” — merged step two into step one, in
one bowl halfway through, and still came out great.
Also, subbed in fresh quartered cherry tomatoesfor the canned, tri-colored pepper slivers for the yellow, and added some chopped green onion cuttings just because I had them those on hand ready to be used.
Will definitely revisit this one, even though I’m rarely much of a recipe user!

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Darshana Thacker Wendel

Darshana Thacker Wendel is a whole-food, plant-based chef and former culinary projects manager for Forks Over Knives. A graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute, she is the author of Forks Over Knives: Flavor! She created the recipes for Forks Over Knives Family and was a lead recipe contributor to the New York Times bestseller The Forks Over Knives Plan. Her recipes have been published in The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health, and LA Yoga magazine online. Visit DarshanasKitchen.com and follow her on Instagram for more.

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