Penne with peanut sauce and broccoli

This is fast becoming one of my favorite meals. Not only is it delicious but it’ also so easy to make. We enhanced our bottled peanut sauce with some additional peanut butter, vinegar, and water because it was running low.  I sautéed some mushrooms, onions, and garlic while I was waiting for John to get home from work and also added one of last summer’s blazing hot chiles. While the penne was cooking, I dropped in a sieve full of broccoli in the top of the boiling water for one minute then added it to the onion mixture.  Finally I combined the pasta and peanut sauce with the onions etc., used a little reserved pasta water to loosen up the sauce, and heated everything together.

So good!!