Italian Vegetable Skillet with Roasted Garlic and Pine Nuts
Created by Sue on April 17, 2013
- Servings: 5
- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 90m
- Recipe #9060
Ingredients
- FOR ROASTED GARLIC
- 1 to 2 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 head garlic
- FOR THE VEGETABLE SKILLET
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 5 small zucchini, cut into coins
- 1 red bell pepper, cut in half lengthwise,then sliced
- 8 ounces cremini mushrooms, quartered (may use button mushrooms)
- 1/2 cup sun-dried tomato packed in oil (chopped and drained before measuring)
- 1/2 cup pitted ripe black olives
- 1 to 2 teaspoon fresh oregano, minced
- 1 to 2 tablespoon fresh basil, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
- Sea salt (to taste)
- Fresh ground black pepper (to taste)
- 1/4 cup grated romano cheese (or 1/4 cup asiago cheese)
- 2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 325F.
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Step 2: Line a baking pan with aluminum foil.
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Step 3: Cut off top 1/4 to 1/3 of garlic head (exposing cloves) and drizzle with olive oil.
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Step 4: Place garlic on baking pan, cut surface down, and roast for 1- 1 1/4 hours or until cloves are softened; allow garlic to cool slightly.
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Step 5: Heat butter and 1 tbsp of olive oil in a large saute pan and squeeze out softened garlic cloves into pan (avoiding papery skins).
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Step 6: Mash a few of the cloves into the butter/oil, stirring, and add onions, cooking until onions are slightly softened.
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Step 7: Add zucchini, peppers and mushrooms to the pan and cook for 4 minutes.
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Step 8: Add sun-dried tomatoes, olives, minced herbs, and season to taste with salt and pepper (you may add some crushed red pepper now if you wish).
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Step 9: Continue to cook for 6-8 minutes or until vegetables are cooked the way you like them.
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Step 10: Before serving, sprinkle with romano or asiago cheese (you may use parmesan as well) and toasted pine nuts.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (347.2 g)
- Calories 231.5
- Total Fat - 9.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.3 g
- Cholesterol - 5.5 mg
- Sodium - 1909.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 30.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 8.3 g
- Sugars - 9.6 g
- Protein - 9.6 g
- Calcium - 194.4 mg
- Iron - 2.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 52.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg