Creamy Pesto Bacon and Cheese Rigatoni
with Veggies
This pasta dish brings summer vibes with creamy basil pesto, corn and Parmesan. A little sprinkle of bacon at the end ties the whole dish together!
Ingredients: Rigatoni pasta (durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulphate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) (wheat) • Sweet bell pepper • Thaw-friendly corn (corn, modified vinegar) • Bacon (pork, water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, spices, smoke) • Basil pesto (basil (basil leaves, sunflower oil, salt, ascorbic acid), water, soy oil, canola & extra virgin olive oil, potato flakes, parsley, sunflower seeds, garlic, parmesan cheese (milk, bacterial culture, salt, lipase, calcium chloride, rennet/ microbial enzyme, powdered cellulose), salt, spices, modified corn starch, nutritional yeast, citric acid, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • 35% Cream (cream, milk, dextrose, cellulose gel, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate) (milk) • Shallot • Parmesan cheese (modified milk ingredients, water, natural flavour, modified corn starch, calcium chloride, lipase, bacterial culture, microbial enzyme, microbial rennet, cheese (milk, bacterial culture, salt, microbial enzyme, annatto), natamycin, ultrafiltered milk and milk ingredients, salt, sodium phosphate, flavour, citric acid, sodium citrate, potassium sorbate, acetic acid, lactic acid, annatto, sorbic acid, anticaking blend (cellulose powder, potato starch, corn starch, dextrose, calcium sulfate, enzyme)) (milk) • Cream sauce spice blend (wheat flour, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, canola oil, silicon dioxide) (wheat).
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
170 g
Rigatoni
(Contains Wheat)
100 g
Bacon Strips
¼ cup
Basil Pesto
(Contains Milk May contain Tree nuts, Wheat, Milk, Soy, Sulphites, Egg, Fish)
1 unit(s)
Shallot
¼ cup
Parmesan Cheese, shredded
(Contains Milk)
56 mL
Cream
(Contains Milk)
1 unit(s)
Sweet Bell Pepper
113 g
Corn Kernels
1 tbsp
Cream Sauce Spice Blend
(Contains Wheat May contain Peanuts, Triticale, Tree nuts, Sesame, Soy, Wheat, Milk, Sulphites, Mustard)
Not included in your delivery
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
0.13 tsp
Salt*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Instructions
- Add 10 cups hot water and 1 tbsp salt to a large pot (use same for 4 ppl). Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Add rigatoni to the boiling water. Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until tender, 10-12 min.
- Reserve 1/2 cup (1 cup) pasta water.
- Drain and return rigatoni to the same pot, off heat.
- Meanwhile, core, then cut pepper into 1/2-inch pieces.
- Peel, then thinly slice shallot.
- Cut bacon into 1-inch pieces.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- When hot, add bacon to the dry pan. Cook, stirring occasionally, until crispy, 7-9 min.**
- Remove the pan from heat. Using a slotted spoon, transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate.
- Carefully discard all but 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) bacon fat from the pan.
- Reheat the pan with reserved bacon fat over medium-high.
- When the pan is hot, add corn. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 2-3 min.
- Add peppers and shallots. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 3-4 min. Season with salt and pepper.
- Sprinkle Cream Sauce Spice Blend over top. Cook, stirring constantly, until veggies are coated, 1 min.
- Add pesto and reserved pasta water to the pan with veggies. Cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, 2-3 min.
- Add veggie mixture, cream, half the bacon and half the Parmesan to the pot with rigatoni. Stir to combine.
- Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Divide rigatoni between bowls.
- Sprinkle remaining Parmesan and remaining bacon over top.
