Recipes by Barbara Northwood

Warm bean and pasta salad

Nov 17 01:07pm

Serves
Serves 6-8

Ingredients

500g packet small pasta shells
3 tblsps olive oil
200g green beans, halved
1 cup semi sun-dried tomatoes
2 medium red chillies, coarsely chopped
1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
1/4 cup fresh rosemary sprigs
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup grated parmesan
2 tblsps lemon juice
2 tsps caster sugar
Salt and pepper, to taste
400g can butter beans, rinsed, drained

Method
1 Add pasta to a large pan of boiling salted water. Boil, uncovered, until just tender. Drain well. Transfer to a large bowl and drizzle with 1 tblsp of the oil. Toss to combine. Keep warm.

2 Meanwhile, boil, steam or microwave green beans until just tender. Drain well.

3 Process half of the tomatoes with chillies, parsley, rosemary, garlic and 1 tblsp of the oil until coarsely chopped. Transfer to a small bowl and stir in parmesan, lemon juice, sugar and remaining oil. Season with salt and pepper.

4 Add green beans, butter beans, herb mixture and remaining tomatoes to pasta. Toss to combine. Serve.