Summer pea pasta

Summer pea pasta

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Cooking time

Prep: 5 mins Cook: 10 mins

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 4

No time to cook? This light, fresh pasta dish is ready to eat in 15 minutes

Nutrition and extra info

Additional info

  • Vegetarian
Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
462
protein
15g
carbs
82g
fat
11g
saturates
2g
fibre
6g
sugar
4g
salt
0.03g
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Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 fat garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
  • zest 2 lemons
  • 400g pasta
  • 200g fresh or frozen peas
  • 20g pack basil

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  • Tip

    Add prawns

    Fry 200g raw prawns with the garlic and chilli, swap the basil for flat-leaf parsley, and cut the zested lemons into wedges for squeezing over the finished dish.

Method

  1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a frying pan and cook the garlic and chilli for a couple of mins until very lightly golden. Stir in the zest.
  2. Cook the pasta, adding the peas for the final 2 mins. Drain, then tip everything back into the saucepan. Tip in the garlic, chilli and lemon, scraping in any bits stuck to the pan. Tear in the basil, season and add the remaining olive oil. Stir well.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2010

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tiffyplums04:57, 19th Feb, 2012

Great recipie although 3 big garlic cloves makes this dish extremly garlicky! Next time i'd use 1 or 2 max! Overall really good x

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brynroberts2202:02, 20th May, 2011
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It was good, i added a bit of smoked bacon to it. But i think that there needs to be a bit of a sauce with this...would have been amazing with some kind of tomato sauce...

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issylau11:05, 23rd Mar, 2011

i love family healthy recipes

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ahmz3506:24, 8th Dec, 2010

we love this recipe it's quite perfect easily prepare for my family. thanks for sharing.. keep it up

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sarah55503:47, 13th Nov, 2010
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I love this recipe. It's really quick and easy but I added a couple of courgette and a bit of lemon grass to make the lemon taste stronger. A red pepper instead of a chilli makes it less fiddily to make.

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