Pesto pasta with peas
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Pesto pasta with peas
Sweet peas and basil pesto turn everyday pasta into a speedy green supper.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 12 min
- Serves
- 2
- Level
- Easy
Gather
Ingredients
- 200 gfusilli
- 150 gfrozen peas
- 3 tbspvegetarian basil pesto
- 30 gvegetarian hard cheese, grated
- 1 tsplemon juice
- 15 gbasil leaves, torn
Make
Method
- 1.
Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil and add the fusilli. Cook according to the packet instructions.
9 minutes - 2.
Add the peas for the final 3 minutes of cooking.
3 minutes - 3.
Reserve 100 ml of cooking water, then drain the pasta and peas and return them to the pan off the heat.
1 minutes - 4.
Stir in the pesto, lemon juice and half the cheese, adding a splash of reserved water to loosen. Finish with the basil and remaining cheese.
2 minutes