Trofie pasta with spinach, pesto and ricotta cheese

Name: Trofie pasta with spinach, pesto and ricotta cheese
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: Pasta of your choice; 1 dollup of pesto; 1 dollup of ricotta cheese; 1 handful baby spinach; A few mushrooms; Half an onion; Salt and black pepper

RR @homecook23

Pasta is always a great opportunity to do a fridge-clearout, and that's what I did to make this for lunch last week. In the Summer I usually have some home-made pesto sauce in the fridge, and I decided to mix the last spoonful of my most recent batch with the remains of a tub of ricotta cheese to make a creamier pesto. I also needed to use up some baby Spinach leaves, a few stray mushrooms and a couple of slices of smoked ham. The result was this very tasty, and pretty healthy 👌, pasta dish.

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Ingredients

20 minutes

1 serving

Pasta of your choice
1dollup of pesto
Cashew nut pesto (substitute for pine nuts)
1dollup of ricotta cheese
1 handfulbaby spinach
A fewmushrooms
Halfan onion
Salt and black pepper

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Steps

20 minutes

1

Put a pan with salted water over a moderate heat and when it starts to boil, add the pasta. While it is cooking, lightly fry the onions in a little olive oil for a few minutes. Add the sliced mushrooms, a pinch of salt and grind some black pepper. Add the ham and spinach.
2

Cover the pan and while the spinach is wilting, mix the pesto and ricotta cheese. Add to yhe pan and mix in well.
3

Add a little of the pasta water to the pan and stir. Drain and add the pasta. Taste, adjust salt and pepper and enjoy!!

Tips

Cashew nut pesto (substitute for pine nuts)

I love making rough cut pesto it’s cheaper and more flavoursome than shop bought. I forgot to buy pine nuts so substituted cashew nuts and found it’s very tasty 🤤

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