Spinach Pesto
Everyone likes Spaghetti Bolognese but you don’t need ground beef to create a nice tomato sauce. If you don’t want the green beans you could add protein by adding in some frozen peas.
Ingredients
4-5 servings
500 g
400 g
ca. 8
200 g
400 g
100 g
Penne or other pasta
Tomatoes canned
Sundried tomatoes or courgette
Spinach chopped, frozen
Mushrooms chestnut
Green beans (cook with pasta)
ca. 90 g
1
2 cloves
Pesto
Onion yellow
Garlic
Prep
10 min
- Dice onion and mince garlic
- Cut mushrooms into slices
- Cut sun-dried tomatoes into small strips
- Take off top from beans halve them
Cook
20 min
Sauté onion and mushrooms
medium/high heat ~3 min
Reduce heat and add garlic
medium heat, simmer until most of the moisture from the mushrooms is gone ~5 min
Add tomatoes, sundried tomatoes and pesto
~3 min
Cook pasta with green beans
(or cook in separate pans) ~10 min
Add spinach
Simmer until spinach is melted and everything is warm ~8 min
Make it a dinner party
- Toast some sunflower seeds or pine nuts to serve
- Use high quality pesto or make it yourself
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I made this dish for my housemates and it was a big success! Especially the sundried tomatoes gave it something special 🙂