Vegan pesto pasta
Ingredients
- ½ cup almonds
- 100g kale
- 25g basil
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 lemon, zest and juice
- 3 tbsp nutritional yeast
- ½ cup olive oil
- Rigatoni or penne
- ¾ cup peas
- ½ head broccoli, cut into florets
- 2 courgettes, sliced thinly
- 2 red peppers, halved and cored
- Chilli flakes
Steps
- Preheat oven to 200°C, place peppers cut side down on a tray and bake for 15 - 20 mins.
- Roast the almonds in a hot pan until golden and fragrant, let cool.
- Place ingredients from almonds to nooch in blender and blend until finely chopped.
- Start trickling olive oil into the blender while still blending.
- Boil a large pot of water and cook your pasta al dente. Drain pasta but don't discard water.
- Boil frozen peas for two minutes in the pasta water.
- Stir fry the broccoli and courgette.
- Take the skin off the roasted red peppers and roughly chop.
- Serve pasta mixed with pesto and topped with vegetables and chilli flakes.
