Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli is 4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli estimated approx 30 mins.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Pesto is my favourite pasta sauce. I always have a batch in the fridge, my kids love spreading it on hot toast and it's great to use with grilled chicken too as well as for pastas and pizzas. I like experimenting with different herbs (parsley, coriander, rocket....) and nuts (cashew, walnuts, almonds) to make this great pasta sauce. This recipe is the classic basil + pine nuts recipe. A few years ago I spent an amazing month in an old Italian villa overlooking Florence, and was lucky to be next door to a very kind Italian grandmother who welcomed me into her kitchen every time delicious smells drew me to the window, and explained how to make some traditional recipes. This is her pesto recipe and the first time I made it was with her.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli:

1. -------- Pesto sauce -------
2. 1 generous bunch fresh basil
3. 1 cup pine nuts
4. 120 gr. parmesan cheese
5. 1 generous glass good quality olive oil
6. 1 lemon (juice of)
7. 4 cloves garlic (6 if it's a small bulb)
8. 1 few pinches of salt
9. -------- Pasta dish -------
10. 3 tbsp. pesto sauce
11. 1 tablespoon mixed seeds
12. 1 packet tallerines
13. 1 small head broccoli

Instructions to make to make Pasta with home-made pesto and broccoli

1. Break the cheese into smaller pieces, put in the food processor with the pine nuts and blitz
2. Add the rest of the pesto ingredients and blitz again until you obtain a smooth, vibrant green sauce
3. If the sauce is too "dry" add more olive oil blitz and carry on adding and blitzing until you get this kind of texture. Taste and add salt accordingly
4. Save in an airtight container. It will keep for days in the fridge.
5. For the broccoli pasta, wash the broccoli well. Heat about 4 cm. of water in a small saucepan and when it is boiling add a pinch of salt, the broccoli florets and cover with a lid. Steam for 4 minutes and drain immediatly. Hold under cold running water to stop it from getting limp. Cook the pasta according to the instructions in the packet and drain thoroughly. Mix the hot pasta with the pesto sauce in the pan. Add the broccoli and transfer to an oven dish. Sprinkle with seeds and put a dollup of pesto on the seeds. Put in a pre-heated oven at 180º for 10 minutes.
6. Serve with a very simple tomato, onion and lettuce salad on the side. Enjoy :-)

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