Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pesto pasta with broccoli. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tip the pasta into a large pan of boiling salted water and cook according to pack instructions. This Basil Pesto Pasta with Broccoli and Mushrooms is an easy dish that's full of flavor. I don't think I could make this broccoli and mushroom pesto pasta easier if I tried!
Pesto pasta with broccoli is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pesto pasta with broccoli is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pesto pasta with broccoli using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta with broccoli:
- Make ready lots of fresh basil
- Prepare pine nuts
- Get garlic cloves or more
- Take parmesan cheese
- Prepare half cup olive oil
- Take juice of a large lemon
- Get salt pepper and chilli flakes
- Take head of broccoli
- Prepare any noodle I like spirals penne or large macaroni
Toss pasta with broccoli pesto, adding more pasta cooking liquid as needed to coat evenly. Let cool, then press plastic wrap directly on surface before covering to avoid discoloration and chill. This take with an easy broccoli pesto pasta is one of the ways I keep the pasta/pesto combination alive during the colder months when basil isn't as abundant. Best of all, this dish is gluten-free (thanks to Barilla chickpea pasta) with a suggestion on how to make it vegan!
Steps to make Pesto pasta with broccoli:
- Put basil nuts garlic cheese oil lemon spices in a food processor and whiz It all up. Add more oil in need
- Cook your pasta accordingly
- Cut up broccoli into chunks
- Add broccoli to pasta in the last few minutes of cooking.
- Strain water saving half a cup of the water
- Toss pesto through pasta and broc. Add water to loosen it up
- Enjoy… You'll probably eat it all in one go like I do
The pesto is delicious simply served with pasta. But it also works great on pizza, in a sandwich or even topped on chicken and baked. If you try out this recipe please do let me know what you think. Pesto becomes more full-bodied with the addition of broccoli that's blanched in the same pot as the pasta and fresher with the combination of mint and Drain the pasta well and transfer to a large bowl. And allow me to save you some reading - the key to good, broccoli pesto is to resist the urge to overcook the broccoli.
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