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Green Pasta Sauce

Super Green Pasta Sauce

Kate Ford | The Veg Space
A bright green pasta sauce, made from peas, spinach, basil and mint, lemon and pine nuts.  Blitzed together in the time it takes your spaghetti to cook - the speediest of meals!
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Prep Time 3 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course Main
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2 people
Calories 443 kcal

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.

Nutrition

Serving: 1portion (with pasta)Calories: 443kcalCarbohydrates: 77gProtein: 17gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 10mgPotassium: 501mgFiber: 8gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 570IUVitamin C: 58mgCalcium: 55mgIron: 3mg
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