I’m a big fan of both roasted vegetables of all kinds and goat cheese, so when I saw a recipe for Penne with Roasted Vegetables and Goat Cheese on the Cooking Light website this morning, it appealed to me. I had a small log of goat cheese on-hand, so I made sure to grab the veggies used in the recipe, when I hit the grocery store before lunch.
I stuck to the recipe for the most part, but added mushrooms and marjoram and omitted basil. I also used a little less of the vegetables and goat cheese. My daughter will only eat her veggies raw, but gobbled up the pasta, so it worked out for us, but you may wish to use the larger quantities of vegetables and cheese from the original recipe, especially if you are feeding 4 people.
- ½ pound uncooked rigatoni (or other sturdy pasta)
- 1 yellow squash (sliced on diagonal)
- 1 zucchini (sliced on diagonal)
- ½ a red onion (sliced vertically into narrow wedges)
- 5-6 crimini mushrooms (halved)
- 8-10 large grape tomatoes (halved)
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6-8 twists of fresh ground pepper pepper
- 1 tbs balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp chopped fresh thyme
- 1 tsp chopped fresh marjoram or oregano
- 2-3 oz. of goat cheese
- Preheat oven to 475 degrees.
- Put water for pasta on to boil, while prepping veggies.
- Place vegetables, garlic oil salt & pepper in large bowl and mix.
- Dump out onto baking sheet, and roast for 15-20 minutes.
- Drain pasta at al dente stage and set aside.
- Return the vegetables to the large bowl, add balsamic and herbs. Mix well.
- Add the goat cheese, and stir.*
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This looks amazing!!!
This looks delicious, as usual!
Wow, this looks so good. I love goat cheese.
I really should branch out and try other things I’m so picky
You had me at goat cheese. I think it’s the best cheese on the planet!
You make me hungry every time I come to your site!
Yummy!! Thanks for sharing!!
I love roasted veggies with pasta. such a good combo
That looks really good!
Huge goat cheese fan! This looks delicious.
That looks good! I would totally try this.
My mouth is watering! I love roasted veggies!
I’m not a goat cheese fan but I would gobble up everything else
Gosh that looks delicious. I sure do miss pasta!
Goat cheese is so rich it often tastes like a dish with it has meat. Love it!
This looks great, though I’m not a huge fan of goat cheese.
This looks so good! I would make this with spaghetti squash
That looks SO good! I love goat cheese & any time there’s pasta involved, I’m in.
Looks good to me! Not sure if I would use goat cheese since I prefer other cheese, but it looks good!
This looks delicious.
I will definitely be making this. It looks so good.