Pistachio & Pear Pasta

Posted 03/10/11 by ChefSnowball
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Venues:	Cheese Pasta & Grains Produce & All Things Green
Categories:	Fruit Other Pasta Vegetables
Sub Categories:	Celery Nuts Pears Rigatoni
Keywords:	rigatoni, celery, pear, Pistachio, Gorgonzola, vegetarian
Servings:	4

Ingredients:

1 package of rigatoni pasta
1 stalk of celery, chopped
1 large pear, diced
1 tablespoons of vodka
2 tablespoons of pistachios, chopped
1/4 cup of gorgonzola
1/2 lemon
2 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoons of sugar
salt and pepper
water

Preparation:

Boil salted water for the pasta. Sauté the celery and pear with the sugar, butter and vodka for 5 minutes. Add the pistachios and simmer for another 3 minutes.

Boil the pasta.

Strain the pasta and mix it in a large bowl with the pear sauté. Crumble the Gorgonzola cheese over top and squeeze the lemon over top the pasta. Mix well.

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