Broccoli pesto pasta
Ingredients
- 2 heads broccoli
- 10 garlic cloves
- 30g pine nuts
- 20g basil
- 400g tofu
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 3 tsp white miso
- 3 tbsp nooch
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- 200g spaghetti
- 2 lemons
Steps
- Blend the basil and pine nuts with a pinch of salt until just pulverised.
- Grate the broccoli, stem and florets. Grate the garlic.
- Heat olive oil in a large pan. Once hot add the garlic and broccoli.
- Add a pinch of salt and cook until starting to char.
- Meanwhile add the tofu, lemon juice, olive oil, miso, nooch, garlic powder and 1 tbsp of water to a blender.
- Blend until smooth and season to taste with salt and pepper. Loosen with water if necessary.
- Add the basil and pine nuts to the pan and cook for another 2-3 mins.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta as per package instructions. Reserve a cup of pasta water.
- Stir the pasta through the broccoli pesto. Add a splash of pasta water and drizzle with olive oil.
- To serve, spoon a generous amount of the whipped tofu onto the bottom of a plate.
- Then layer over the pasta and finish with lemon zest, pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.
