Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli

How to Making Recipes Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli using 13 ingredients and 6 steps

Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli - This pesto chicken and broccoli dinner is a jazzed up version of my favorite creamy chicken and broccoli pasta. It's loaded with garlic, parmesan, pesto, and chicken + broccoli. The chicken is first cooked in browned garlic and onions then the parmesan, pesto and cream is added and that's where the real fun begins. Separate broccoli stalk from florets and finely chop florets. Trim woody end of stalk, then peel and finely chop.

When the texture looks right, taste and adjust seasoning with more salt and pepper or lemon juice as needed.

Lemon Broccoli Pesto Pasta: Step-by-Step (print friendly recipe below) Cook the broccoli.

You can cook Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli

1. Prepare -------- Pesto sauce -------.
2. It's 1 generous bunch fresh basil.
3. Prepare 1 cup pine nuts.
4. It's 120 gr. parmesan cheese.
5. Prepare 1 generous glass good quality olive oil.
6. You need 1 lemon (juice of).
7. You need 4 cloves garlic (6 if it's a small bulb).
8. It's 1 few pinches of salt.
9. It's -------- Pasta dish -------.
10. It's 3 tbsp. pesto sauce.
11. It's 1 tablespoon mixed seeds.
12. Prepare 1 packet tallerines.
13. You need 1 small head broccoli.

Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli step by step

1. Break the cheese into smaller pieces, put in the food processor with the pine nuts and blitz.
2. Add the rest of the pesto ingredients and blitz again until you obtain a smooth, vibrant green sauce.
3. If the sauce is too "dry" add more olive oil blitz and carry on adding and blitzing until you get this kind of texture. Taste and add salt accordingly.
4. Save in an airtight container. It will keep for days in the fridge..
5. For the broccoli pasta, wash the broccoli well. Heat about 4 cm. of water in a small saucepan and when it is boiling add a pinch of salt, the broccoli florets and cover with a lid. Steam for 4 minutes and drain immediatly. Hold under cold running water to stop it from getting limp. Cook the pasta according to the instructions in the packet and drain thoroughly. Mix the hot pasta with the pesto sauce in the pan. Add the broccoli and transfer to an oven dish. Sprinkle with seeds and put a dollup of pesto on the seeds. Put in a pre-heated oven at 180º for 10 minutes..
6. Serve with a very simple tomato, onion and lettuce salad on the side. Enjoy :-).

Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli - Meanwhile, tip the broccoli into a food processor with the pine nuts, basil, garlic, parmesan and oil, and blitz until smooth. Season with black pepper and a little salt (the pancetta is very salty). This simple recipe is made with pasta, pesto, and steamed broccoli. Kosher Drain the pasta and return it to the pan. Pour in the olive oil and generously season with salt and pepper. Spoon in the grated Parmesan, toss the pasta well and serve. Cook the pasta in a large pot of salted water according to the package directions. Thank you and good luck