Happy Friday!
I am always thinking of easy week night or even weekend lunch meals that don’t require a ton of ingredients or making a trip to the grocery store. Sometimes I’m just hungry and want to whip something up that is fast, easy, and still healthy…
So I often make pasta! It is one of my favorite meals and is typically simple to make, always tastes good and is healthy. Win, Win and Win! It’s also a good way to use those vegetables that I purchase every week that sometimes sit in my refrigerator until they….well you know…move on to the garbage.
These tomatoes made it though! 😉 I love tomatoes, just not in their raw form. I mean, yes, I will eat them on a cheeseburger or in a salad, but I will not cut one up and just eat it. Yuck. I love anything tomato though…. like ketchup, tomato sauces, love them roasted or on pizza…so I’m not really sure why I just can’t eat one? So weird.
Anyway…roasting them is a great way to give them flavor. Roast on a very low heat, like 225 degrees, sprinkle with salt, pepper, garlic power, and drizzle with olive oil and roast for just about 25 minutes. Easy peasy.
Remember the pesto chicken I made awhile back? Well, I still had about half a jar left of pesto so I figured I better use it before I lose it. I put very large dollop in the bottom of a bowl, cooked some whole grain pasta, topped it with some roasted tomatoes and there we go…an easy, fast, and healthy lunch/dinner!
Oh and sprinkle lots of parmesan cheese on top! What are your favorite easy meals to me?
Enjoy!
- 1½ - 2 cups whole grain pasta
- 2 tablespoons pesto
- 1 tomato (I used tomatoes on the vine)
- Parmesan cheese
- Salt, pepper, garlic powder
- Pre heat oven to 225 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
- Slice tomatoes and place on baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Place in oven to roast for about 20-25 minutes.
- While tomatoes are roasting, boil some salted water, add whole grain pasta and boil according to package directions (about 8 minutes).
- Once pasta is done cooking, mix in bowl with pesto, top with roasted tomatoes and parmesan cheese.
Lauren
This is seriously one of the best Chicken recipes out there! So yummy and delicious!
juliajolliff
I love this easy weeknight dinner idea. Roasted tomatoes are the best–it really brings the flavors out.