SIMPLE Pea Pasta recipe! This easy and healthy dinner dish uses fresh sugar snap peas and only takes 15 minutes from to start to finish! It’s my favorite Spring and Summer garden recipe! It’s completely vegan too!
Pea Pasta Recipe
There is a strong possibility that while you are reading this I am daydreaming about this pea pasta for dinner. During the Summer time when it’s peak garden season this is our go to dinner that we have a few times a week. Once we start harvesting sugar snap peas by the pound (right now there’s over 10 pounds worth in my fridge!) then we start to sing “It’s pasta time..”.
Let’s start at those fresh ingredients, just picked from the garden. There’s sugar snap peas, chopped lettuce, radishes and one gorgeous tomato. I counted the roma tomatoes a few days ago and there’s over 200 on the plants ready to turn red. July is going to be tomato time!
Simple Pea Pasta
The sugar snap peas are almost done with their Spring harvest, but we’ve got a bunch to last us. Not only do I love these peas fresh as a afternoon snack, but peas and pasta go together perfectly. The peas aren’t cooked so they have a nice crisp taste to them in every bite.
(Ps. If you want to go wild, make Roasted Sugar Snap Peas!)
The worst part of peas is puling away those strings. I hate doing that job. My husband and I often joke that if we ever have a child, this will be one of the first things we teach them.
Lettuce is another vegetable that isn’t thought of as a match for pasta, but it’s perfect in this dish. If your family doesn’t love greens as much as you do and isn’t pleased with that salad you put on the table, try chopping up lettuce and adding it to your next pasta dish.
After you chop up all your vegetables, throw them in a bowl. After the pasta is done, we’ll throw it on top. By throwing the vegetables in the bottom, they will be easy to stir around evenly.
Time out. Let’s marvel at this radish.
Did you swoon at it? Ok, me too. Now moving on…
Now, time to boil the pasta. I love this dish with egg noodles or tricolor pasta!
The Best Summertime Pasta Dish!
Now my favorite part, this simple pea pasta dish takes 10 minutes to make. After the pasta is done, throw it in your dish with your vegetables and pour some olive oil on top. The always tricky pour the olive oil while holding the camera shot, thankfully I got it in one frame.
Along with some oregano, salt and pepper, mix up the pasta and it’s done! Throw some in a bowl and admire at the beautiful dish you just made.
I really do love that there’s a ton of vegetables in every single bite!
From our garden…
To our table, don’t you love it?
Looking for more fresh recipes? Try my Roasted Sugar Snap Peas, Creamy Pasta with Cauliflower and Pea Shoots Pasta.
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Simple Pea Pasta
PrintIngredients
- 12 oz box of pasta
- 2 cups sugar snap peas strings removed and cut into thirds
- 1 large tomato cut up
- 1 radish sliced thin
- 1 cup loose lettuce chopped
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- salt + pepper to taste
- Optional: Parmesan cheese or Chopped Jalapenos to garnish
Instructions
- Make pasta according to box, drain.
- Add all your vegetables to large serving bowl. Add your cooked pasta on top.
- Pour in olive oil, oregano and salt + pepper. Stir good so everything is combined and coated with olive oil.
- Serve and enjoy!
- For added yum, sprinkle a light amount of Parmesan cheese on top or for a kick, add finely diced jalapenos on top!
Elizabeth Towns says
This salad is amazing in color, variety of veggies and aesthetic delight. I want to make it just so graces my table. I love that radish is incorporated for just a punch of quiet heat.
Manali @ CookWithManali says
what a gorgeous bowl of pasta! love the simple flavors ๐
Susan says
I’ve been looking for a recipe to use the peas that I’m finally harvesting. Thank you, Pamela! I don’t know why my radishes have remained dwarfs!
kristina says
thank you for the recipe I intend to use for dinner tonight ๐ looks so yum!
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Pamela says
Enjoy Kristina, hope you like it!
Mary Frances says
Everything looks so fresh and vibrant! Thanks for sharing your great recipe!
Cassie Tran says
This looks so nice!
Jessica @ Sweetest Menu says
Oh I love a good pasta salad, this one looks scrumptious! So fresh and tasty!
Ashley says
Yup, definitely swooned at that radish! I can’t get enough of them lately!
This pasta sounds just perfect! So fresh!
Pamela says
Haha, I like your radish love Ashley!
Sues says
Not going to lie, this post makes me a little bit jealous of all this awesomeness you have in your garden!!
Pamela says
Awww, thanks! If you were closer, I’d share with you!
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
Looks so FRESH! I love all the beautiful summer colours.
Pamela says
Thanks Angie!
Naeun says
I think reading your blog at 1am is not a good idea! This looks too good and is making me so hungry. I never thought about lettuce with pasta but it sounds like a great idea ๐ xx
Pamela says
Thanks Naeun. I love adding lettuce into pasta and rice dishes, it’s such a easy way to get your greens in!