Green sauce for pasta
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Turn lightly steamed spinach into a beautiful, bright green pesto-like sauce for pasta.
Instructions
Wash the spinach, shake off as much excess water as possible and strip the leaves from the stems. Steam the leaves to just wilted, together with the garlic. This takes about 3 minutes.
Combine the steamed mix with basil leaves, salt, pepper and olive oil, then whiz with a hand-held stick blender or in a food processor.
Toss with the cooked pasta and sprinkle with parmesan and pine nuts. Any leftover sauce makes a great spread with crackers and cheese.
- Recipe by:
- Naomi Roydhouse
First published November 2005
Recipe Information
Portions: 4
Time to make: 20 minutes
- Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 250g spinach
- 2-3 cloves garlic, peeled and cut into slivers
- 4-10 basil leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 250g packet pasta shapes, cooked
- grated parmesan cheese
- toasted pine nuts
Nutrition Information
| per serve | |
|---|---|
| Energy |
1200
kJ
(289 Cals) |
| Protein | 10.2g |
| Fat - saturated |
8.7g
1.7g |
| Carbohydrates - sugars |
41.4g
0.9g |
| Dietary Fibre | 4.2g |
| Sodium | 260mg |
| Calcium | 70mg |
| Iron | 1.7mg |
| * NS: Not specified | |
