Red pepper & hazelnut pesto pasta
Serves 4
Easy
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Enjoy the textures and flavours of roasted red peppers and hazelnuts in this easy pasta dish. Taking just 25 minutes to make, it's a perfect midweek meal
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Units:
- 250g jar roasted red peppers
- 60g hazelnutstoasted
- 1 large garlic clovecrushed
- 50ml extra virgin olive oil
- pinch of chilli flakesoptional
- ½ tsp sherryor white wine vinegar
- 30g parmesangrated, plus extra to serve
- ½ small bunch of parsley
- 400g dried pastapenne, rigatoni or orecchiette work well
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal576
- fat25g
- saturates4g
- carbs67g
- sugars2g
- fibre7ghigh
- protein17g
- salt0.2g
Method
step 1
Drain the peppers and tip them into a food processor with the toasted hazelnuts, garlic, olive oil, chilli flakes, vinegar and a good pinch of salt. Blitz to a smooth paste. Add the parmesan and parsley, then blitz again. Check the seasoning.
step 2
Cook the pasta following pack instructions. Drain and reserve a cup of the cooking water. Toss the pesto with the pasta and a splash of cooking water to loosen. Serve in bowls with extra parmesan grated over.
