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Pasta with pesto & fresh herbs
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Pasta with pesto & fresh herbs

15 ingredients 30 min Serves 5 - 6 openrecipes
Pasta with pesto & fresh herbs

Grow your own herbs? Snip a good mixture of them for this very special pasta dish

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

684
Calories
24g
Protein
44g
Fat
51g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Pasta 1 cup cooked (140g) 220
Pine 1 oz (28g) 191
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Parmesan Cheese 1 oz (28g) 110
Walnut 1 walnut half (4g) 26
Spinach 1 cup raw (30g) 7
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Sage 1 tsp ground (0.7g) 2
Tarragon 1 tsp dried (0.5g) 2
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Chive 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Basil 5 leaves fresh (2.5g) 1

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 500g bag pasta shapes
  • 100g bag baby spinach
  • 50g walnuts , chopped
  • 50g bag wild rocket
  • small handful flat-leaf parsley , leaves torn into fingertip-size pieces
  • small handful sage , leaves torn into fingertip-size pieces
  • small handful chives , snipped
  • some basil and tarragon, if you have any, torn into pieces
  • 4 tbsp good-quality olive oil
  • 100g Parmesan or veggie alternative, grated
  • 50g toasted pine nuts
  • 2 garlic cloves , roughly chopped
  • handful basil
  • handful flat-leaf parsley
  • 50ml olive oil

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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