Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli:
- Take ——– Pesto sauce ——-
- Get 1 generous bunch fresh basil
- Get 1 cup pine nuts
- Make ready 120 gr. parmesan cheese
- Get 1 generous glass good quality olive oil
- Prepare 1 lemon (juice of)
- Get 4 cloves garlic (6 if it's a small bulb)
- Prepare 1 few pinches of salt
- Prepare ——– Pasta dish ——-
- Prepare 3 tbsp. pesto sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon mixed seeds
- Get 1 packet tallerines
- Make ready 1 small head broccoli
Boil pasta according to package directions. Ziti, penne, rigatoni, fusilli or similar short pastas may be used (do not use long, noodle-like pasta). The broccoli should be firm and a bright green when cooked (al dente). This simple recipe is made with pasta, pesto, and steamed broccoli.
Instructions to make Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli:
- Break the cheese into smaller pieces, put in the food processor with the pine nuts and blitz
- Add the rest of the pesto ingredients and blitz again until you obtain a smooth, vibrant green sauce
- 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
- Save in an airtight container. It will keep for days in the fridge.
- 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.
- Serve with a very simple tomato, onion and lettuce salad on the side. Enjoy :-)
Kosher Lightly mash the broccoli with a potato masher or fork. Finely grate the garlic and zest the lemon, then mix into the broccoli with the chilli flakes and pine nuts. Cut the lemon in half and keep for later. Drain the pasta and return it to the pan. While pasta cooks, heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
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