Christine's pesto spaghetti with soya beans
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Goodtoknow mum of 3, Christine McCall, loves this pasta recipe because it's cheap, tasty, quick-to-make and healthy too.
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Prep time: 5 mins
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Cooking time: 12 mins
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Serves: 2
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Skill level: Easy peasy
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Costs: Cheap as chips
Ingredients
Don't have all the ingredients? Improvise - most veg will go with this recipe.
- 150gspaghetti
- 3 tsp green pesto
- 2 tbsp low-fat sour cream
- 2 handfuls spinach
- 1 green or red pepper, chopped
- 1 cup soya beans
- pinch salt
- pinch pepper
- 1 tsp crushed chilli (optional)
- Mixed leaf salad
Method
- Fill a saucepan with water, add pinch of salt and bring to the boil.
- Add the spaghetti to the pan.
- After 5 mins, add the pepper, spinach and soya beans to the pan.
- Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Drain the spaghetti and veg and put it back into the pan.
- Add the sour cream, pesto, pepper and chilli flakes.
- Place the pan back onto a low heat and stir for 30 secs to a minute.
- Serve with mixed leaf salad.
Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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Your comments
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Sam Harper, posted 4 months ago
made this for me and the kids last night, we all loved it. I like it hot so I put more chilli in mine, went down a treat.
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becky, posted 4 months ago
Mmm- this was delicious
