Silky Green Spaghetti
- Super simple
- 0:25 m
- 8 ingredients
Ready for a pasta dish that’s as tasty as it is nourishing? Our Silky Green Spaghetti is a super easy take on your typical pasta night. Bursting with nutrients the sauce is packed full of cannellini beans, spinach and basil and is unbelievably silky.
Serves: 4
Ingredients
For the Sauce
- 1 400g tin of cannellini beans
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 200g baby spinach
- 60g basil
- 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 lemon
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 500g spaghetti
To Serve
- olive oil
- nutritional yeast
- Salt and pepper
Before you start
Saucepan | Kettle boiled | Food processor | Large stock pot | Large frying pan
Step 1
Prepare the beans and spinach
- Peel the garlic cloves
- Open and drain the beans, add to the saucepan along with the garlic and spinach, cover with boiling water and simmer over medium high heat for 2 minutes
- Drain the contents of the pan into a colander
- Leave to cool to room temperature
Ingredients
- 1 400g tin of cannellini beans
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 200g baby spinach
Step 2
Prepare the pasta
- Cook the pasta in a big pot of boiling salted water according to package instructions (approx 9 minutes)
Ingredients
- 500g spaghetti
Step 3
Prepare the Silky Bean Pesto
- Pick 10-12 small good looking basil leaves and set to one side
- Roughly twist the leaves off the basil and discard the stems
- Halve the lemon and squeeze the juice into the food processor, catching any pips in your free hand
- Add the beans, spinach, garlic, basil leaves, nutritional yeast and olive oil to the food processor and blitz until smooth
Ingredients
- 60g basil
- 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 lemon
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Step 4
Finish and serve
- Add a ladle of pasta water to the frying pan and bring to a simmer over medium heat
- Add the contents of the food processor to the pan and stir to combine
- Taste and season to perfection with salt, pepper and more nutritional yeast
- Drain the pasta, transfer to the frying pan and fold to combine
- Twist the pasta into serving bowls, drizzle over a little olive oil, season with more nutritional yeast, salt and pepper, dress with the reserved basil leaves and serve immediately
Ingredients
- olive oil
- nutritional yeast
- Salt and pepper