Pasta with Kielbasa and Peppers
In the same spirit of frugal dinners and using up things in the pantry before grocery shopping, dinner last night was pasta with smoked kielbasa, green peppers, zucchini and tomatoes. It was super yummy and easy – I just sauteed some smoked kielbasa (from our great local butcher D&D Meats) then added diced green peppers, zucchini and tomatoes. Meanwhile I boiled some assorted dried pastas, then added the cooked pasta to the sauce along with a bit of the pasta water. I mixed it all up, plated it, topped with some fresh grated Parmesan and that was that.
Two thumbs up from hubby and kids, so I’ll have to file this easy recipe away for future use!
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I’m going to try this. Did you use fresh tomatoes or canned? What would you use instead of zucchini?
I used fresh tomatoes since that’s what I had on hand. It will work fine with canned diced tomatoes, but if you use the whole can it will be a lot more tomato-y than this was (I think I used about 3 roma tomatoes) and you might not need to add any pasta water to the sauce at the end.
You could use yellow summer squash instead of the zucchini, or something totally different like green beans or cauliflower. Or just add more peppers (maybe another color?) and skip the other veggie. I’d suggest mushrooms to someone else 🙂