Recipe - Pasta With Summer Vegetables And Spicy Peanut Sauce

FOR THE SAUCE
Three fourths cup Smooth peanut butter
3 tablespoon Soy sauce
2 tablespoon Rice vinegar or white wine
vinegar
1 tablespoon Lime juice
1 small Garlic clove, minced
Cayenne pepper to taste
One half cup Hot water
12 ounce Pasta, i.e. rotelle, penne,
farfelle
2 Carrots, cut into thin
slices on a diagonal
1 One half cup Broccoli florets
One half pound Snow peas, trimmed and cut
crosswise into 1inch
pieces
4 Scallions, thinly cut or sliced up

In a small saucepan combine the peanut butter, soy sauce, vinegar, lime
juice, garlic, cayenne and hot water. Whisk the sauce together over
moderate heat until smooth and hot.

In a kettle of boiling salted water cook the pasta for 5 minutes. Add the
cut or sliced up carrots to the cooking pasta, stir and cook for 1 minute. Add the
broccoli, stir and cook for 30 seconds. Add the snow peas, stir and cook
for another 30 seconds. Drain the pasta and vegetables in a colander.
Transfer the pasta and vegetables to a large bowl and pour the hot sauce
over the mixture, tossing to combine. Sprinkle with scallions.

Yield: 4 servings

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8907 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #653 by
"Angele and Jon Freeman" jfreeman@netusa1.net on Jun 30, 1997