Farfalle with Golden Beets, Beet Greens and Pine Nuts

Name: Farfalle with Golden Beets, Beet Greens and Pine Nuts
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 340 grams farfalle (bow-tie pasta); 3 garlic cloves, minced; 2 bunches 2-inch-diameter golden beets with fresh healthy greens; beets peeled, each cut into 8 wedges, greens cut into 1-inch-wide strips; 4 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil, divided; 946 milliliters large onions, quartered lengthwise through root end, sliced crosswise (about; 79 milliliters grated Parmesan cheese plus additional for serving; 79 milliliters pine nuts

Farfalle with Golden Beets, Beet Greens and Pine Nuts might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 6. One portion of this dish contains roughly 13g of protein, 17g of fat, and a total of 446 calories. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have onions, olive oil, diameter golden beets, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the onions you could follow this main course with the Candy Corn Cupcakes as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat heavy large skillet overmedium heat.

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Frying Pan

Add pine nuts andstir until lightly toasted, about3 minutes.

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Pine Nuts

Transfer to smallbowl.

Add 2 tablespoons oil andonions to same skillet and sautéuntil beginning to soften andturn golden, about 10 minutes.Reduce heat to medium-low andcontinue to sauté until onionsare tender and browned, about30 minutes longer.

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Cooking Oil

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Add garlicand stir 2 minutes. Scatter beetgreens over onions.

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Onion

Drizzleremaining 2 tablespoons oil over;cover and cook until beet greensare tender, about 5 minutes.

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Beet

Cooking Oil

Meanwhile, cook beets inlarge pot of boiling salted wateruntil tender, about 10 minutes.Using slotted spoon, transferbeets to medium bowl. Returnwater to boil.

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Beet

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Bowl

Pot

Add pasta to beetcooking liquid and cook untiltender but still firm to bite,stirring occasionally.

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Pasta

Drain,reserving 1 cup pasta cookingliquid. Return pasta to pot.

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Pasta

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Pot

Stir onion-greens mixtureand beets into pasta.

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Greens

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Pasta

Add pastacooking liquid by 1/4 cupfuls tomoisten. Season with salt andcoarsely ground black pepper.Stir in 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese.Divide pasta among shallowbowls.

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Ground Black Pepper