Saturday, 20 September 2014

Wholewheat Pasta and Broccoli with Kale and Olive Pesto

This is a tasty way to get your vegetables in and a good low GI dinner and/or lunch.
Boil some wholewheat pasta and just before it's finished throw in some good quality broccoli.
Whilst that's cooking throw some kale, sundried tomatoes, olives, garlic, sunflower seeds and olive oil into a blender. Blitz until it becomes a rough paste. Season well. I then fried some smoked bacon lardons because Kev doesn't accept it as a meal if it doesn't have some kind of animal in it. You can also add red onion and olives to this mix if you want extra texture.
Mix the pesto well with the pasta and broccoli whilst it's still hot. Add some parmesan cheese. It's delicious. Kev and I loved it, the flavour was intense and it was also good cold the next day for lunch. Ollie couldn't be persuaded to eat it though, his scampi dinner is below!

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