Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli
Pesto is my favourite pasta sauce. I always have a batch in the fridge, my kids love spreading it on hot toast and it's great to use with grilled chicken too as well as for pastas and pizzas. I like experimenting with different herbs (parsley, coriander, rocket....) and nuts (cashew, walnuts, almonds) to make this great pasta sauce. This recipe is the classic basil + pine nuts recipe. A few years ago I spent an amazing month in an old Italian villa overlooking Florence, and was lucky to be next door to a very kind Italian grandmother who welcomed me into her kitchen every time delicious smells drew me to the window, and explained how to make some traditional recipes. This is her pesto recipe and the first time I made it was with her.
Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli
Pesto is my favourite pasta sauce. I always have a batch in the fridge, my kids love spreading it on hot toast and it's great to use with grilled chicken too as well as for pastas and pizzas. I like experimenting with different herbs (parsley, coriander, rocket....) and nuts (cashew, walnuts, almonds) to make this great pasta sauce. This recipe is the classic basil + pine nuts recipe. A few years ago I spent an amazing month in an old Italian villa overlooking Florence, and was lucky to be next door to a very kind Italian grandmother who welcomed me into her kitchen every time delicious smells drew me to the window, and explained how to make some traditional recipes. This is her pesto recipe and the first time I made it was with her.
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- 1
Break the cheese into smaller pieces, put in the food processor with the pine nuts and blitz
- 2
Add the rest of the pesto ingredients and blitz again until you obtain a smooth, vibrant green sauce
- 3
If the sauce is too "dry" add more olive oil blitz and carry on adding and blitzing until you get this kind of texture. Taste and add salt accordingly
- 4
Save in an airtight container. It will keep for days in the fridge.
- 5
For the broccoli pasta, wash the broccoli well. Heat about 4 cm. of water in a small saucepan and when it is boiling add a pinch of salt, the broccoli florets and cover with a lid. Steam for 4 minutes and drain immediatly. Hold under cold running water to stop it from getting limp. Cook the pasta according to the instructions in the packet and drain thoroughly. Mix the hot pasta with the pesto sauce in the pan. Add the broccoli and transfer to an oven dish. Sprinkle with seeds and put a dollup of pesto on the seeds. Put in a pre-heated oven at 180º for 10 minutes.
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Serve with a very simple tomato, onion and lettuce salad on the side. Enjoy :-)
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