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Red pesto pasta with broccoli & almonds

Name: Red pesto pasta with broccoli & almonds
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 200g jarred roasted red peppers drained and roughly chopped; 2 garlic cloves roughly chopped; 15g parsley roughly chopped; ½ lemon juiced; 30g parmesan or vegetarian alternative, finely grated; 75ml olive oil; 50g flaked almonds toasted; 200g short tube pasta (we used rigatoni); 150g purple sprouting broccoli each spear cut into thirds

Ailsa Burt

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 10 mins

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Make this quick and easy pasta dish with flaked almonds, roasted red peppers and purple sprouting broccoli. Serving four, it makes an easy family dinner

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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200g jarred roasted red peppers

drained and roughly chopped
2 garlic cloves

roughly chopped
15g parsley

roughly chopped
½ lemon

juiced
30g parmesan

or vegetarian alternative, finely grated
75ml olive oil
50g flaked almonds

toasted
200g short tube pasta

(we used rigatoni)
150g purple sprouting broccoli

each spear cut into thirds

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal487
fat29g
saturates5g
carbs41g
sugars4g
fibre5g
protein14g
salt0.7g

Method

step 1

Tip the peppers into a food processor with the garlic, parsley, lemon juice, parmesan, 60ml of the olive oil and most of the flaked almonds, reserving a small handful to garnish. Blitz until finely chopped and season to taste. Cook the pasta following pack instructions and reserve a mugful of the pasta cooking water. Drain thoroughly.
step 2

Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan over a high heat. Stir in the broccoli and a generous splash of water. Season. Cook, stirring regularly, until softened and charred, around 7-8 mins. Stir in the cooked pasta, a splash of pasta water and the pesto. Season and scatter over the reserved almonds.

Recipe tip

If you can’t get purple sprouting broccoli, use long-stem or regular broccoli florets instead.

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