Broccoli & Walnut Winter Pasta Recipe | Eat and Shine ☀️

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds provide healthy fats and protein with a different flavor.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Boil water in a pot and add salt and broccoli to it.

Transfer the cooked broccoli into a blender.

Cook the pasta in the same pot of boiling water.

Add 2 cloves of garlic to the blender with the broccoli.

Pour in about 1 cup of the boiling water into the blender.

Add olive oil to the blender while continuously whisking.

Transfer the sauce from the blender into a big bowl.

Add the zest of 1 lemon and some lemon juice to the bowl.

Mix in a generous amount of parmesan cheese and stir everything together.

Transfer the pasta to a plate.

Crush walnuts with hands and add them to the pasta.

Garnish with fresh mint leaves and optionally add red pepper flakes.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

Spice Level:

Allergens