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Creamy Green Leek & Pea Pasta. Recipe PDF Vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free. If possible, snag some Yukon Gold, German Butterball, or other extra-flavorful creamy potatoes.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook creamy green leek & pea pasta using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Green Leek & Pea Pasta:
- Get 1 tbsp (15 ml) olive oil
- Get 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- Make ready 2 stalks green onions, thinly sliced
- Get 1 large leek, green tops removed, tailed, halved, washed, thinly sliced
- Make ready 1 jalapeño, de-seeded, minced
- Make ready 1 large head broccoli, outer fibrous layer of stem removed, chopped into small pieces, green tops cut into florets
- Make ready 1 tsp (5 g) salt
- Make ready 225 g frozen peas
- Prepare 100 g frozen spinach
- Take 1/2 tsp dried basil
- Get 1/4 tsp dried oregano
- Take 1/4 tsp dried mint (optional)
- Get 400 g fusilli pasta, or other pasta of choice (GF if desired)
- Prepare 250 ml plant-based cooking cream (we used soy, but you could use oat or almond if GF)
- Get 1 tbsp (15 ml) lemon juice (the juice from about ½ a lemon)
Add to your preferred taste. herbs and spices to pair with leeks. Leeks are relatives of onions and garlic, but they have a milder taste than either of them. The first time I made soupy leek rice (recipe below), I slowly cooked the leeks with a good amount of butter; the next time I braised them in olive oil. Once I threw a few tablespoons of schmaltz in there, and another time I started it off by rendering bacon fat in the pan, reserving the meat to crumble over the top.
Steps to make Creamy Green Leek & Pea Pasta:
- 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.
- 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.
- Then add the peas, spinach, basil, oregano, and mint, cooking for another 5 - 6 minutes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add the pasta and broccoli to the sauce, along with the lemon juice, and toss to coat.
- Serve while hot, alongside some lemon wedges and garnished with fresh basil leaves.
Added the peeled potatoes and cooked in chicken broth until tender. Put the leeks and garlic back into the pan and cooked together for a few minutes. Removed half and put in Ninja to puree' and added back to pot. This is the creamiest creamed leeks recipe. All we need are leeks, butter and cream. with a pinch of salt.
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