Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Greeny green pasta

I was in search of a pasta sauce which is not tomato based, when I found this interesting recipe. This recipe is inspired by Heidi's recipe of Winter pasta from 101cookbooks.com. Though this recipe does not look too appetizing, it was a healthy yummy change from the regular pasta I make.

Ingredients:

  1. 5-6 cloves of garlic, peeled and slightly crushed
  2. 2 cups of spinach
  3. 4-5 tbsps of olive oil
  4. 1/3 cup of feta cheese, plus more for topping
  5. Freshly ground black pepper
  6. 2 Green chillies
  7. 8 oz of dried whole wheat penne pasta
  8. Coriander leaves--a small bunch
Method:
  1. Boil water (with salt added) and cook the pasta Al dente or as instructed on the package
  2. In a pan, saute the garlic, green chillies in a few tsps of olive oil.
  3. Add the spinach, coriander and saute till the spinach wilts (don't over cook it)
  4. Puree the above with olive oil and feta cheese and set aside
  5. Toss the pasta with the puree in the pan
  6. Top with crumbled feta cheese and coriander leaves.


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