Silky Green Spaghetti
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
Ingredients
For the Sauce
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To Serve
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Before you start
Saucepan | Kettle boiled | Food processor | Large stock pot | Large frying pan
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
Prepare the pasta
- Cook the pasta in a big pot of boiling salted water according to package instructions (approx 9 minutes)
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
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