Recipe - Spinach Pesto Pasta

Fancy something healthy?!  Then try this gorgeously green Spinach Pesto Pasta.

This is a gorgeously healthy recipe which I found on rachelscraftcorner, and I've adapted it slightly to feed five as opposed to the recipe which was for one, and I also added extra spinach. 

Ingredients:

• 500g penne pasta, cooked a la dente
• 250ml chicken broth
• 250ml milk
• 250g spinach or more
• One tbsp cornflour
• 150g pesto
• Salt, pepper, garlic, and parsley to taste
• Dash cayenne pepper, optional
• 50g cheese, Parmesan or Cheddar

 Method:

1. Cook pasta.
2. In a food processor or blender, combine chicken broth, milk, spinach, cornflour, pesto, and desired herbs.
3. Pour spinach mixture over the cooked pasta. Cook over medium heat until hot and bubbly and the sauce coats the pasta.
4. Stir in cheese until it’s melted and creamy. 

I have a MagiMix Food Processor which is quite big, but even then I have to do #2 in two lots as the food processor will not take this amount of liquid and stuff in one go without spilling out.  Take it from one who knows.  I had to clean up a vivid green liquidy mess on my first attempt at making this recipe!

If you don't want to use all spinach then add some cooked broccolli - thats nice too.  Such a green health kick this recipe.  If you want to be extra good then omit the cheese altogether but I imagine the sauce won't be as creamy and because everything else is super healthy I am sure a little bit of fat is ok in this case.

Top it all off with some mangetout, sugar snap peas or asparagus.  How healthy can one meal get!

 

Comments

[Angelnorth]

1.

Lovely vivd geen - I'm sure it tastes as good as it looks!

[Hazel]

2.

Mmmm looks good and I bet it tastes delicious. x