Creamy Green Leek & Pea Pasta
Creamy Green Leek & Pea Pasta

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, creamy green leek & pea pasta. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have creamy green leek & pea pasta using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Green Leek & Pea Pasta:
  1. Take 1 tbsp (15 ml) olive oil
  2. Make ready 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
  3. Get 2 stalks green onions, thinly sliced
  4. Get 1 large leek, green tops removed, tailed, halved, washed, thinly sliced
  5. Prepare 1 jalapeño, de-seeded, minced
  6. Prepare 1 large head broccoli, outer fibrous layer of stem removed, chopped into small pieces, green tops cut into florets
  7. Take 1 tsp (5 g) salt
  8. Make ready 225 g frozen peas
  9. Take 100 g frozen spinach
  10. Prepare 1/2 tsp dried basil
  11. Get 1/4 tsp dried oregano
  12. Get 1/4 tsp dried mint (optional)
  13. Take 400 g fusilli pasta, or other pasta of choice (GF if desired)
  14. Get 250 ml plant-based cooking cream (we used soy, but you could use oat or almond if GF)
  15. Take 1 tbsp (15 ml) lemon juice (the juice from about ½ a lemon)
Steps to make Creamy Green Leek & Pea Pasta:
  1. Cut the stem off the head of broccoli. Cut away the fibrous outer layer of the stem. Chop the remaining stem into bite-sized pieces. The green tops of the broccoli can be cut into small bite-sized pieces.
  2. To a large pot on high heat, add the olive oil, and when hot, add in the garlic, green onion, leek, jalapeño, broccoli stems, and salt. Note, the salt here helps to draw the water our of the veggies, which helps it all cook faster. Cook this for 5 minutes, or until the leeks become soft and translucent.
  3. Then add the peas, spinach, basil, oregano, and mint, cooking for another 5 - 6 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to the package instructions, adding the broccoli florets in the last couple minutes. Just before draining it all, scoop out 120 ml cooking water from pasta and add to the veggie pan. Then drain the pasta and broccoli florets.
  5. Add the cooking cream to the veggie pot, and stir to combine. You can leave this pasta sauce chunky as is, or make it smooth by blending it all up using an immersion blender or standing blender. We chose to blend about half of ours with an immersion blender, making it part-chunky and part-smooth.
  6. Add the pasta and broccoli to the sauce, along with the lemon juice, and toss to coat.
  7. Serve while hot, alongside some lemon wedges and garnished with fresh basil leaves.

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