Fusilli Primavera With shrimp
- 1/2 pound thin string beans
- 6 ounces baby carrots, peeled
- 15 asparagus tips
- 12 ounces medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 10 ounces cherry tomatoes, halved if large
- 1 yellow bell pepper, seeded and sliced
- 6 large radishes, sliced
- 1 pound fusilli pasta
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Heat a saucepan of lightly salted water to boiling.
- Add the string beans and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Remove.
- Place in a bowl of ice water to cool.
- In the same boiling water, cook the carrots for about 5 minutes; cool as for the string beans.
- Add the asparagus tips to the same boiling water and cook for about 3 minutes.
- Cool, as for the other vegetables.
- In about 1 cup lightly salted boiling water, cook the shrimp until pink, about 3 minutes.
- Remove from water and cool.
- Boil the pasta in salted water as the package directs for al dente.
- Reserve about 1 cup of the pasta cooking water; drain pasta.
- Cool and place in a serving bowl.
- Add the cooked vegetables; the raw tomatoes, bell pepper and radishes; and the shrimp.
- Sprinkle with parsley and olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Toss.
- Add a little pasta cooking water and toss again.
- Adjust seasoning as necessary.
thin string beans, baby carrots, shrimp, tomatoes, yellow bell pepper, radishes, pasta, parsley, extra virgin olive oil, salt
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/9017 (may not work)