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Broccoli Pesto Pasta Recipe

March 30, 2016 By Aarthi 1 Comment

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This pasta dish is the simplest one you can make. My 2 year daughters favourite pasta dish is this one and my garlic butter spaghetti..It has broccoli in them, so it is nutritious and tasty as well. i am sure this will be adults favourite too, You can make this for dinner and serve with a roast chicken or anything. 

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Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

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Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 10 mins
Serves: 2

Ingredients:

Pasta – 1 cup ( i used macaroni)
Water – lots of it
Salt as needed

For Pesto:
Broccoli – 1 cup cut into florets
Cashews or Badam – 8 to 10
Garlic – 2 cloves
Parmesan Cheese – 1/4 cup
Red Chilli Flakes – 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Lemon Juice – 1 tblspn or to taste
Olive Oil – 1/4 cup

Method:

Bring lots of water to a boil. Add salt to it, add in broccoli and cook for 2 mins. Drain it and set aside.

In the same pot add pasta and cook till done.

When the pasta is cooking, make pesto. take cashews, garlic, red chilli flakes, salt, parmesan cheese and pulse few times till it is blended. Add in broccoli and olive oil and pulse few times so it is coarsely crushed.

Now drain the cooked pasta and add it to a bowl, add in this pesto and toss well. Add little pasta cooking water if needed.

Serve with a sprinkling of parmesan cheese.

Pictorial:
Take your ingredients
wash and cut broccoli into pieces
boil water in a sauce pan, add salt to it
put broccoli in this
cook for 5 mins
drain and set aside
take cashews in a blender
add garlic
add salt and chilli flakes
add parmesan cheese
crush it up
add broccoli
lemon juice
ollive oil
pulse few times
now it is done
in the same water, 
add pasta
cook till done
drain it
add it back into the pot
add pesto
toss well
Serve
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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Anonymous

    March 31, 2016 at 3:23 am

    Oh I dint know Pesto could be made widout Basil leaves !!! Surprising

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