Seasonal GREENS

SIMPLE AND DELICIOUS, RIGATONI VERDURE IS THE PERFECT SUMMER DISH.

BY DANIEL BOULUD

WAY BACK IN my Le Cirque days, pasta primavera was all the rage. That was spaghetti tossed with a pantry full of vegetables and herbs, a riot of color and fresh flavors. Here, we want to celebrate just our favorite color of the season with a dish that’s nearly monochrome: Call it “pasta prima verde.” This is an unapologetically green dish, a mix of all the bright things I love in early spring. We use asparagus, sugar snap and spring peas, green beans, fresh mint, and zucchini, all bound together by a luscious lettuce cream that’s the key to the entire dish. The lettuce cream brings a richness and density of flavor to chewy pasta like rigatoni (use whatever dry pasta shape you like, though tubular ones are best so the sauce…

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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2019

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