(Family Features) When your family’s favorite dishes inevitably grow tired, a touch of sweetness may be all you need to freshen up the flavor of classic recipes. Keep tried-and-true dinners on the table with a simple addition that complements the tastes you know and love: fresh fruit.
With its craveable texture and crunch, balanced sweetness and beautiful golden red color, an option like Envy Apples can be enjoyed as part of delicious meals. While they’re often best served fresh or paired with cheese boards, sandwiches or mocktails, their sweetness also plays up when combined with pasta, shrimp, Parmesan, toasted almonds and more in this Apples and Pesto Farfalle.
Plus, because Envy Apple slices naturally stay white longer than other varieties, they maintain their beauty while you cook so finished dishes look as delicious as they taste.
To find more ways to sweeten up family meals, visit EnvyApple.com.
Apples and Pesto Farfalle
1 pound farfalle pasta
3 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus additional for cooking pasta, divided
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus additional for cooking pasta, to taste, divided
1 bunch parsley leaves
1 cup toasted almonds
1 cup shredded Parmesan
2 tablespoons lemon juice
30 turns fresh cracked pepper
2 cups cooked peas
2 Envy Apples, diced
1 bunch chives, thinly sliced
1 block Parmesan
20 shrimp
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse pepper
Cook pasta in salted boiling water until just tender. Drain and toss gently with olive oil, to taste, then set aside.
In food processor, pulse parsley leaves, almonds, shredded Parmesan, 2 teaspoons kosher salt, lemon juice and cracked pepper. Once pulsed, turn processor on high and drizzle in 1/3 cup olive oil until well incorporated.
Toss pasta with fresh pesto until well coated. Fold in peas, apples and chives. Using peeler, shave thin slices off Parmesan block over pasta for garnish.
Preheat grill or grill pan over high heat.
Toss shrimp in canola oil, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and coarse pepper. Grill 2 minutes on each side, or until charred slightly. Spread evenly over pasta and serve.
Source: Envy Apples
