Pasta with Green Pesto

Name: Pasta with Green Pesto
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 400 g/14 oz dried pasta; 250 g/9 oz broccoli florets; 125 g/4¼ oz/1 cup cashew nuts; leaves from a large bunch of basil, about 40 g/1½ oz; 2 garlic cloves, peeled; 50 g/2 oz/⅔ cup vegan hard cheese, grated, plus extra to serve if you like; 2 tbsp nutritional yeast; about 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; salt and ground black pepper; salt and ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

Vegan Kids

By Heather Whinney

Published 2021

About

This vivid green pesto offers a change in flavour to the more traditional sauce, as it includes lots of broccoli as well as the fresh basil, and toasted cashew nuts are used instead of pine nuts; walnuts also work well!

Ingredients

400 g/14 oz dried pasta

Main course
Vegan

Method

Put the broccoli in a pan of boiling salted water and cook for 5 minutes or until just tender. Drain really well and leave to cool.
Meanwhile, toast the nuts. Put them in a heavy frying pan and heat until they are beginning to turn golden. Alternatively, spread them out on a baking sheet and Cook at