Description
Pea and Spinach Pesto Pasta proves that being a simple dish doesn’t mean you lack any pizzazz. Fresh garden flavors are the star in this dish.
Ingredients
Scale
- 120 grams 4 ounces casarecce pasta (or any pasta)
- 1 cup green peas
- 1 cup spinach
- 3 tablespoons basil pesto
- 1 clove of garlic
- olive oil
- salt and pepper
- lemon and parmesan cheese to serve if desired
Instructions
- Place pasta in a pot of salted boiling water to cook and set aside
- In a food processor, blitz your peas, spinach and clove of garlic with a tablespoon of olive oil. If you don’t have a food processor, you can bash, mash and chop.
- Once blitzed, mix the basil pesto through and season with salt and pepper.
- Set aside. Just before you remove pasta from the heat, collect half a mug of the pasta water. Do not throw this out – it’s gold.
- Strain pasta and return to the pot. Mix through the pesto and add some of the reserved pasta water back to the pasta to loosen the sauce.
- Season with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper, parmesan and lemon if desired.
- Category: Primi