Spaghetti with spinach & walnut pesto

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• Camilla Johnsen

  17 August 2011

  Camilla Johnsen rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Good dish, I would however leave out the lemon and add oil instead.

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• Enright78

  18 August 2011

  Enright78 rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Tried this last might, pleasantly surprised at how tasty it was. I also added a little olive oil to the pesto, but left the lemon in, it works really well with the mint. The tip about adding pasta cooking water gives a lovely sauce. Good low fat supper.

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• Jill B

  22 August 2011

  Jill B commented on this recipe

  I am not fond of walnuts so I roasted some pecans under the grill and used then instead. Like Enright78 I added some olive oil to the pesto, plus a drop of sesame oil. Result - lovely quick supper dish, all gone in minutes!

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• vicky

  22 August 2011

  vicky commented on this recipe

  tasty..

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• martinyarnit

  23 August 2011

  martinyarnit commented on this recipe

  I like these pesto variations. I have a parsley and almond pesto to accompany broad bean gnocchi on www.tasteforbologna.blogspot.com Recently in Bologna at Eataly I had an almond hummus - they called it - which had the consistency of hummus but was pesto in another form.

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• Mr. Gilbus

  28 August 2011

  Mr. Gilbus rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made this despite my concerns beforehand that the combinations of ingredients might not work well together. Unfortunately my instincts turned out to be true - this dish just does not deliver a satisfying experience; the combined flavours were actually quite unpleasant!

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• Munchy Food

  30 August 2011

  Munchy Food rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Made this adding a little olive oil to the pesto...it was ok. Flavours tasted wrong somehow and the sauce was a little grey...not the best I've found on goodfood, husband enjoyed tho, although he eats anything.

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• Zoe7284

  31 August 2011

  Zoe7284 rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I added a little oil, as suggested and found this to be nice. I served it with a tomato red onion and beetroot salad which provided a good contrast to liven the meal up.

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• Kwhite_uk

  31 August 2011

  Kwhite_uk rated and commented on this recipe

  

  This recipe was somewhat lacking, I added the following and it tasted so much better: 50g of grated parmesan 2 tablespoons of Olive Oil 1 extra garlic clove I added generous amounts of sea salt (about 1 big pinch) & black pepper (10 twists of a grinder) as it definitely needs these... The dish is a little uninspiring to look at, especially with the whole wheat spaghetti, I would add some roasted red peppers to the dish to give it colour.

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• G&M

  05 September 2011

  G&M rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Didn't enjoy this at all and wouldn't make it again when normal homemade pesto is much much nicer!

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• DrFabio

  08 September 2011

  DrFabio rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I thought this was pretty good, but it definitely needed oil (the pasta stuck together because the sauce was dry) and a good helping of parmesan/grana padano! I was concerned about the raisins but I ended up using big plump ones which were lovely - so much better than those hard dry tiny ones. I'm not sure how it turned out grey for people though - mine was lovely and green from all the herbs and spinach!

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• Beth

  14 September 2011

  Beth rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Though the pesto was going to be too lemony so I let it down with some olive oil but mixed into the pasta it was a little bland - somehow the lemon does overpower the herbs - it was ok - not amazing - definitely not grey though.

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Ingredients

• 1 garlic clove , crushed
• 50g walnuts , roughly chopped
• small bunch mint , roughly chopped
• small punch parsley , roughly chopped
• zest and juice 1 lemon
• 350g wholeweat spaghetti
• 50g raisins
• 100g bag baby spinach leaves

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Serves 4

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Prep 15 mins

Cook 15 mins

Vegetarian, Low-fat, Super healthy

Ingredients

• 1 garlic clove , crushed
• 50g walnuts , roughly chopped
• small bunch mint , roughly chopped
• small punch parsley , roughly chopped
• zest and juice 1 lemon
• 350g wholeweat spaghetti
• 50g raisins
• 100g bag baby spinach leaves

Per serving

414 kcalories, protein 15g, carbohydrate 68g, fat 11 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 9g, sugar 13g, salt 0.4 g

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