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Friday, June 19, 2009

Curried Pasta Salad

Ingredients:
  • 1 tablespoon tomato/tamarind based curry paste (such as Patak's hot)
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 1/2 cups vegetable stock
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 340 grams dry pasta shells or rotini
  • 1/2 red pepper
  • 1/2 green pepper
  • 1/2 red onion
  • 1/2 cup fresh parsley
  • 1/2 cup pine nuts

Directions:

Cook pasta, drain, and set aside to cool.
Combine curry paste, olive oil, stock and raisins in a saucepan.
Bring dressing to a boil, simmer for five minutes, then remove from heat and allow to cool.
Slice peppers and onion thinly.
Chop parsley.
Toss pasta with dressing.
Mix in vegetables, parsley and nuts.
Serve chilled.

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