Conchiglie with green peas

Conchiglie with green peas

If you are fed up with the standard spaghetti and want to please your family with a simple, nutritious, and tasty dish, just try to cook a conchiglie by traditional Italian recipes. With green peas and ham, the macaroni (= kind of pasta), will be very tender and will delight the whole family.

Ingredients:

 

Method of cooking:

  1. Boil the peas for 5-6 minutes, drain the water.
  2. Cook conchiglie, or other pasta which you prefer, to the almost-ready state - as the Italians say "al dente".
  3. While the pasta is being cooked, you can start to prepare the sauce. Peel and chop onion, then brown it on butter to a golden crust.
  4. Peel the ham from the covers and chop it into small dices. Add ham, thyme, and green peas to the onion and let them fry for a little.
  5. Then add sour cream and mix. Stew on medium heat for another ~10 minutes.
  6. Now you can add already cooked pasta to this sauce. Stew the dish for a few more seconds and serve it to the table.