Our summer recipe today is a plate to eat with the whole family. Pasta is usually one of the ingredients that everyone likes, we can use pasta, spelled, wheat, kamut ... or cereal that you like at home. In ours we have become accustomed to eating spelled instead of wheat and we love it, in addition to sitting great and feeling less bloated than with wheat. If you have not tried it, I invite you to do it, you will tell me what you think and how you feel after stopping wheat flour for a couple of weeks.
This recipe can be taken both cold and hot. So if you need to take a tupperware to the beach with food for children, the fusilli with vegetables and basil They will be a perfect option to take away.
Ingredients for 4 people (2 adults and 2 children)
- 500 g fusilli (spiral paste)
- 1 package of cherry tomatoes
- 1 zucchini
- 1 red pepper
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 chopped garlic
- 1 tablespoon basil leaves cut into strips
Preparation
* We wash the vegetables. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and the zucchini and the pepper into small dice.
- Heat the olive oil in a thick-bottomed saucepan and add the chopped garlic. We brown it for 1 minute and add the vegetables and basil.
- We lower the heat and let the vegetables be done for about 10 minutes over medium heat.
- While the vegetables are made, we can cook the pasta according to the cooking time indicated on the package. We drain it and throw it in the casserole with vegetables.
For the dish that you will separate for you, you can add a pinch of chilli pepper to give it a spicy touch. If we serve the pasta hot, you can sprinkle it with parmesan cheese powder.
Properties of the ingredients: zucchini It is a vegetable with very few calories. It is very rich in minerals and vitamins A (essential for bones, teeth, infections), vitamin B (for growth and immune defenses) and vitamin C (healing and to promote iron absorption). The more tender the zucchini is, the more fiber it will have. He pepper It is the vegetable that contains the most vitamin C. It is also a source of carotene and vitamin E, antioxidants that prevent cancer and cardiovascular diseases, so it makes this vegetable an essential ingredient to take in summer.
