Spinach, Pea, and Broad Bean Pasta with Fennel and Pistachio
You won't believe that you can make this dish from mostly frozen ingredients. It's one of those meals that everyone should know how to make, it's espe... Read more You won't believe that you can make this dish from mostly frozen ingredients. It's one of those meals that everyone should know how to make, it's especially useful to have as a backup recipe for those days you're too tired to cook! It's packed with 4 portions of vegetables per serving and it tastes incredible! You won't believe that you can make this dish from mostly frozen ingredients. It's one of those meals that everyone should know how to make, it's especially useful to have as a backup recipe for those days you're too tired to cook! It's packed with 4 portions of vegetables per serving and it tastes incredible!
Plantpoints
protein
fibre
vegetables
spices
Plantpoints
protein
fibre
vegetables
spices
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NUTRITION PER SERVING (Read more)
Plantpoints
protein
fibre
vegetables
spices
Ingredients
Method
Gather your ingredients.
Add the oil to a pan on medium heat and add the shallots. Cook for 7-8 minutes until sweet and lightly coloured.
Then add the peas, broad beans and spinach with the fennel, oregano, chilli and plenty of seasoning.
Cook for another 2-3 minutes then add the stock. Bring to a simmer for 5 minutes. Start with a small amount of stock and add more as needed. You should have enough so that the mixture blends easily once in the blender.
Pour 2/3 of the mixture into a bullet blender and blend into a smooth consistency.
Continue to simmer the remaining mixture in the pan on low to medium heat.
Meanwhile boil the pasta according to packet instructions until cooked al dente.
Add the cooked pasta to the pan with the remaining ingredients, add the blended sauce and stir together. Allow to cook for a further 1-2 minutes until the pasta has absorbed some of the sauce.
Finish with the basil leaves, grated cheese, pistachios, a touch of chilli flakes and an extra drizzle of olive oil.
User comments (50)
Wow what a surprise this was. I was half way cooking this and wss no way am doing this right but danm it came out great. Not everyone in the house hold liked it but majority said ot was great. The only thing I would change it maybe add a little more spices like 1/4 tbs.
Went down well with friends - healthy and tadty
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Liked the flavour and used fennel seeds from the garden plus fresh broad beans. Will liquidise one third of the sauce next time as made the dish too stodgy for me. Served with steamed carrots for colour which worked well. Lovely and filling but felt very comfortable afterwards. Will definitely make again.
Like others, I reduced the dried fennel as my O/H is not keen on their taste. We really enjoyed the dish and will deffo make it again. Such an easy recipe to vary the ingredients to suit what you have to hand too!!
loved this. Didn't have broad beans so used Edamame instead
A delicious and satisfying meal.
Really quick, easy and tasty.
Absolutely delicious! I used chickpea pasta and omitted the fennel as this is not a herb I like .
This is on my list of things I love to cook.
Easy and quick, particularly as I have a shoulder injury.
Flavour fell a bit flat for me, but lifted up with a good squeeze of lemon juice and freshly cracked pepper. And with real pasta, cos life's too short for lentil pasta 😂
Needed to sub edamame for the broad beans, and added a splash of lime before serving. Very enjoyable and planning to make this again.
What a lovely, fresh recipe! 😋 However, I did adapt somewhat. I used fresh fennel, not seeds, edamame beans instead of broad beans, and wild garlic in place of spinach. Hazelnuts in place of pistachios. Simply delicious! I’ll definitely make it again. Thanks, team. 🫶🫶🫶
2 tips I found helpful, first one is to half the Fennel seeds and blend only 1/3 the mixture.
There parmesan cheese is essential to this dish... absolutely delicious
Great recipe using freezer ingredients can recommend
Simple ingredients, easy to do and delicious. My husband is Italian (nervous about non-Italian pasta dishes) and he loved it.
Great recipe! Really tasty but I will reduce the fennel slightly next time. I also used chickpea pasta, because that was what I had.
This one is definitely 5 big gold stars from me. So delicious and easy to make. Added more chilli flakes and parmesan because I love them both!
This was really good!
I’d love to be the person that plans meals for the week but I’ve never managed that for more than a fortnight, so this was a last-minute choice. And what a good one! Quite quick, dead easy, very little chopping and same for washing up. Tasty, interesting and filling but not stodged. We’ll certainly be having this again.
Enjoyed it , only blended 1/2 as recommended by other reviewer and only one tsp fennel both good advice. Used fresh spinach which I think was the right choice too.
Highly recommended
Super tasty. 4/5 only because chopping 200g of shallots is painful. And blending 2/3 of the mixture is too much. Only half really needs to be blended otherwise it makes the final meal mushy.
I would usually only use fennel seeds in a tomato based sauce and never thought to use in a "green" based pasta sauce but this was absolutely delicious. Another winner winner.
I made a few tweaks based on what I had - wholemeal pasta and edamame beans instead of broad beans.
Topped with some pumpkin seeds and hemp hearts for extra boost aswell.
I liked this, but the fennel was too much for me. But a nice meal otherwise. Next time, I'll leave the fennel seeds out.
Very tasty.
Very filling. Flavorful.
Very tasty, I made it with leftover quinoa and fresh spinach.
Delicious and creative 👌🏻
Fantastic! Very different from pasta I have cooked. Creamy, tasty and surprisingly filling. Love the chilli and crunchy pistachios. And again, very easy and fresh. Yum!
This one really lacked flavor for me
It’s a large quantity when cooked, it serves 2-3 easily.
Served it up with Salmon - delicious.
Also I did all the Alternatives, white onion, whole grain pasta, white beans, spinach, pistachio, a few pine nuts, peas.
Real flavorsum good hit for pasta and pesto substitute
Excellent recipe. I added the juice of half a lemon and some garlic powder. Instead of peas I used frozen edamane. I prefer roasted walnuts to the other mentioned nuts as they are excellent for brain health and added some tuna as I didn't have sardines.
Another amazingly tasty, nutritious meal!
Lovely recipe enjoyed it and it was very filling. Might try adding some lemon next time like other reviewer suggested. My husband really liked it even more than me and he wasn’t sure when we were cooking it
So easy and supplies lots of hidden veg in one go!
Tasty, filling and easy. Left out pistachios , fennel and basil due to questionable sensitivities. Used fresh organic broad beans. This dish will be a go to when fresh broad beans are available, and a frequent meal when they’re not.
So good! Everyone enjoyed it even the baby!
Even the fussy 13 year old loved it!
Lovely but not sure about fennel seeds, also portions are too big
I made the recipe for 3 and the quantities were not right. The recipe is 3 tsp of fennel seeds but that is way too much, I only had 2tsp left and even that was too much! Also way too much vegetable puree vs pasta.
Lovely, but for me it didn’t need the chilli and I over salted, forgetting about the Parmesan.
Really nice and had over 2 days
really nice and different pasta dish. Texture was just right
Really nice sauce but I feel the recipe yields too much in relation to the amount of pasta. I froze the rest to use at a later stage.
This is my first time trying your recipes - it was easy and delicious as promised and packed with veggies. Thanks!
Subbed arugula for the spinach and added asparagus to the veggies at the end, plus a squeeze of lemon juice. Thank you for providing a delicious recipe for TWO.
Used onions instead of shallot, turned out fine, went down really well with the family, my eldest son said he felt great after eating this, no bloating, said he felt like his energy levels had gone up tenfold, felt so alert.
Great rec my sone loved it (I just gave him the blended part).
For some reason this rec is really difficult to re-find in the search engine (typing spinach and pea etc doesn't find it unless you put exact title btw!)
Easy to follow, very delicious, thank you