Easy Green Pasta
This pasta in green sauce is packed with goodness, so creamy and full of flavor. Cook it up for a family pasta dinner!
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 355kcal
Ingredients
- 8 oz pasta spaghetti, fusili or penne work well
For the green spaghetti sauce
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ white onion diced
- 1 leek diced
- 2 garlic cloves minced or finely diced
- ½ small broccoli head diced
- 1 small zucchini diced
- 1 cup kale loosely packed, diced
- ¼ cup coriander diced
- ¼ cup parsley leaves
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar optional
- ½ cup ricotta cheese
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper optional
Instructions
- Drizzle olive oil in your skillet and cook onion, garlic and leeks on a low to medium heat in your skillet for 4-5 minutes, or until the onion has softened.
- Add in the zucchini, kale and broccoli, along with the apple cider vinegar, if using. Cook for 15 minutes, or until the broccoli has softened. Stir occasionally to prevent sticking.
- While the green sauce is coming together cook the pasta according to package instructions in salted water. Set aside ½ cup of the pasta water. Once cooked, drain the pasta in a colander.
- Add all the ingredients for the sauce to a blender, along with ⅛ cup of pasta water. Blend, and adjust with more pasta water until you have the consistency you like.
- Transfer the pasta back into the skillet, along with the green sauce. Stir to coat the pasta in the sauce, adding more of the reserved pasta water if needed. Serve garnished with fresh herbs and extra black pepper, to taste.
Notes
- Don't forget to salt the pasta water for better flavor.
- Make sure to reserve some of the pasta water as you will need this to make the sauce.
- Adjust the amount of herbs and garlic to taste preference.
- Nutritional information is auto-generated and should be understood to be an estimate.
- pasta (wheat) scores 1 with a ? as a liberator. You can use an alternative gluten free pasta if required.
- kale is not rated.
- leeks score 1 with a ? as a liberator. There is a note, 'In small amounts, usually well tolerated'.
- garlic and apple cider vinegar, which score 1.
- coriander, which scores 0 but has a ? as a liberator. There is a note, 'Only small amounts are well tolerated'.
- black pepper, which scores 2. There is a note, 'Small amounts are tolerated'.
Nutrition
Calories: 355kcal | Carbohydrates: 55g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 627mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 3097IU | Vitamin C: 98mg | Calcium: 184mg | Iron: 3mg
