Pasta e Piselli (Pasta with Peas)


Here's an easy dish for when you are rushed, you can use fresh peas but they will take longer to cook or simply use frozen peas. The important part of this dish regarding flavor is much onions and black pepper.


Pasta--any small type, I prefer the broken up spaghetti that is the dimension of angel hair, that here are called filini
1 large onion slivered
1 box of frozen peas
1/4 cup olive oil
salt and pepper
water

Start out with a slight sauteeing of the slivered onions in olive oil. You can see I covered the bottom of the saucepan with onions. You need not worry about them being well cooked because they will cook alongside the peas, we just want to saute them until they are a bit soft.

Add your peas to the onions give them a stir and give them heat for about 30seconds to a minute stirring well so they seperate.









Add about 1-2 cups of water. Make sure they are covered. Add salt and pepper. Cover and simmer until peas are tender. Adjust salt and pepper if needed. Let the water simmer down just a bit, we don't want soup.

Then mix with the cooked pasta, sprinkle with  additional pepper and grated cheese if you want.


OPTIONAL---sprinkle crumbled bacon bits if you want to give it an extra twist.