Angel Hair Pasta With Roasted Garlic

NorthwestGal's Note:

I got this recipe from the Kraft website, and it's a very good basic pasta recipe, especially if you like garlic (as we do!). To serve piping hot, you can time the cooking steps so that the pasta is cooking and the vegetables are sautéing during the last portion of time that the garlic is roasting in the oven.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 3 large heads of garlic , unpeeled
• cooking spray
• ¼ cup Dijon mustard
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1⁄8; teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 cup zucchini , julienned
• 1 cup fresh mushrooms , sliced
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• ½ cup water
• 1 medium tomato , chopped
• 8 ounces angel hair pasta , cooked and drained

Directions:

1. Lightly spray each head of garlic with cooking spray. Wrap each garlic head separately in foil. Place garlic in a small baking pan. Bake at 400° for 45 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.
2. Separate garlic cloves. Squeeze cloves to extract the pulp; discard peels.
3. Place garlic pulp, mustard, lemon juice and pepper in food processor or blender container; cover. Process until pureed; set aside. (I have also done this by hand once while we were in the process of moving and I couldn't find my food processor, and it worked just fine. It's tedious, but it does work out OK.).
4. Cook and stir zucchini and mushrooms in hot oil in a large skillet on medium-high heat for 3 minutes or until zucchini is tender-crisp. Add the pureed garlic mixture, water and tomato; mix well. Reduce heat to low; cook until thoroughly heated, stirring frequently.
5. Toss the vegetable mixture with hot cooked pasta, and serve while still warm.

Reviews

[Just_Ducky!!]

Very nice pasta dish but I think next time I'll either pre-roast the garlic or just saute (for simplicity) and cut back on the Dijon mustard. I did use a brand new jar and noticed it was quite strong so that may have been why it was so prevalent a taste in the pasta. Believe it or not, I couldn't find any nice zucchini anywhere so I substituted asparagus which worked quite nicely. Thank you for a lovely and different, pasta recipe NWG! Made and enjoyed for team Mischief Makers - ZWT #7 :)

[KristinV]

Next time I make this I will give it a go with less pasta and a bit less lemon. The sauce seemed to disappear into the mix fairly quickly. Made for ZWT7 (The Hot Pink Ladies)

[mama smurf]

Made this for Septembers Zaar Tomatoe and Pepper tag swap...Delicious! I roasted the garlic a couple of days ago and I used my mini-food processor to mix it up...quite simple. The sauce was wonderful! Definatley will make again. Thank you!