Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On
By Jamie Oliver
10 mins
Super easy
serves 2
About the recipe
This easy pasta sauce will cook in about the same time it takes to cook some dried pasta in boiling salted water – we’re talking about quick and easy options here. These amounts serve 2 but are easy to scale up or down. Remember you want about 75g of dried pasta per person – use whatever shape you’ve got. Or, try my super-simple method for fresh pasta, using just flour and water.
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Ingredients
100g frozen peas
¼ of a clove of garlic
2 sprigs of fresh basil or mint
30g pine nuts
30g Parmesan cheese, plus extra for grating
extra virgin olive oil
Method
- Sit a sieve in the pan of pasta as it cooks, add the peas and blanch for 2 minutes.
- Peel the garlic and place in a pestle and mortar with a pinch of sea salt. Tear in the herb leaves and add the pine nuts.
- Drain the peas and add them to the mix, then roughly bash it all up to whatever texture you like – I like to keep it chunky.
- Finely grate in the Parmesan, and add about 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil – enough to give you a spoonable consistency – then mix and season to perfection with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Drain the pasta, reserving a mugful of starchy cooking water. Toss with the pesto, loosening with some splashes of cooking water.
- Transfer to plates, and finish with a little drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and an extra grating of Parmesan, if you like.
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