Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fresh pesto with courgette spaghetti. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fresh pesto with courgette spaghetti using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Fresh Pesto with Courgette Spaghetti:
- Get 1 clove garlic, crushed
- Get 80 g fresh basil, washed and stalks removed
- Make ready 50 g pine nuts, very lightly toasted
- Prepare 60 g parmesan cheese, finely grated
- Make ready 6 tsp olive oil
- Get Freshly ground black pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 8 courgettes cut into spaghetti
Heavily borrowed from Sonia but without the cheese! Add pine nuts, chilli flakes and garlic to a food processor and blend together. Once blended add the basil and blend further. Spiralize courgettes to make courgetti spaghetti, then set aside.
Steps to make Fresh Pesto with Courgette Spaghetti:
- Add the garlic, salt and pine nuts to a food processor (or use a pestle and motar). Pulse mix until the pine nuts are well ground.
- Add the basil leaves and pulse blend again until the leaves are well combined.
- Tip the mixture into a medium sized bowl and stir in half of the parmesan.
- Add 3 tsp of olive oil and stir gently.
- Add the salt and the rest of the parmesan and stir gently again. Add in the remaining olive oil tsp by tsp until you get the right consistency (it should be a thick, oozing paste). Season to taste with black pepper and more salt if required.
- You can serve the pesto with hot or raw, cold courgette spaghetti. If serving hot, stir fry the courgette spaghetti in a wok for 2 minutes then stir through the pesto just before serving.
Add sauce and courgetti spaghetti to the frying pan and gently heat for a couple a minutes to warm the dish up and soften the pasta. If using unsalted, you may have to. Who would have thought that the humble courgette (or zucchini) could be spiralised into spaghetti noodles? Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Plate of spaghetti with zucchini, pesto sauce and cheese on table, closeup.
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