This creamy super green pasta sauce is as delicious as it is nutritious - made in under 10 minutes from peas, basil, lemon and pine nuts.
I could happily eat pasta every day of the week... and there are just so many sauces to choose from. Creamy, tomato-ey, bolognese-y, spicy... what will it be today?
When I'm in the mood for something creamy but also fairly 'virtuous' I always go for this quick and easy super green pasta sauce that you can whizz up in the time it takes your pasta to cook.
It is a slightly 'saucier' version of a pea pesto. Peas are little nutritional powerhouses, packed with protein and vitamins.
Along with spinach, lemon, pine nuts, basil and mint, this simple pasta supper becomes a delicious and comforting bowl of goodness.
📝 What you need
Ingredients
- baby spinach
- fresh basil
- fresh mint
- lemon
- frozen peas
- garlic purée / ready-chopped garlic
- pine nuts
- pasta of your choice (I like spaghetti, linguine or tagliatelle with this sauce)
Equipment
A mini-chopper or hand blender is really handy for whizzing up this green pasta sauce quickly and easily. For small chopping or blitzing jobs like this I use my Breville Active Compact Food Processor* which at £30 is a bargain and really handy for all sorts of quick tasks in the kitchen.
Or for bigger jobs or larger batches for the freezer, I will get out my Magimix Pro Food Processor* which has three different sized bowls for any size job. (This one was a gift for review from Magimix some years ago, but I’m a big fan and haven’t ever been paid to say so!)
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📖 Recipe
Super Green Pasta Sauce
Ingredients
For the sauce:
- 1 cup frozen peas (no need to measure, about a small mug full)
- handful baby spinach
- handful fresh basil
- handful fresh mint
- 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon ready-chopped garlic / garlic purée
- 2 tablespoon pine nuts
To serve:
- 160 g pasta (I like spaghetti, linguine or tagliatelle with this sauce)
Instructions
- Bring 2 saucepans of water to the boil (1 large-ish, and 1 small). Add the spaghetti to one, and the peas to the other.
- When the peas are cooked (about 4 minutes), drain and tip into a blender or food processor, but set aside a few tablespoons to serve whole.
- Add to the blender the spinach, basil, mint, juice of the lemon, garlic and pine nuts, then blitz until smooth. Add some water, a little at a time, until it reaches a sauce-like consistency. Taste and season with salt and black pepper as required.
- When the spaghetti has cooked, drain it, then return it to the saucepan. Pour in the sauce, return the pan to a gentle heat and mix well to combine as the sauce warms through. Serve immediately scattered with the remaining peas.
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Katie says
Hi! I know this is super fast to make, but do you think the sauce would freeze well? I would like to batch cook for a vegan friend who's about to have an operation and wondered if this could be added to the list! Thanks
Kate Ford says
Hi Katie, I don't think this would freeze particularly well to be honest. It would lose all of its freshness and green-ness, and spinach tends to end up pretty slimy after freezing. I have quite a lot of freezeable meals that might be worth a look: https://www.thevegspace.co.uk/tag/freezer What a lovely thing to do for your friend! Kate x
Will says
The recipe is great, I always keep frozen peas and am always looking for new ways to use them
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Kate Ford says
Thanks Anders!
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Kate Ford says
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