A simple weekday
pasta is where it's at right now! I just can't resist all the lovely
seasonal summer greens that can make amazing salads and pasta dishes.
So many leaves can be used to make pesto, just pick your favourite! I
think that radish leaves are brilliant additions to pasta dishes,
either a bit wilted or as pesto. Until a few years ago, I didn't even
know that they are edible! Now of course I hate to waste them and
always try to incorporate them into cooking. An easy radish leaf
pesto with macaroni was just the right choice for this weekday
dinner.
These are the
ingredients I used:
Leaves from a
bunch of radishes
Olive oil
Garlic
Macaroni
French breakfast
radishes
Vegetarian pasta
cheese shavings
And the making was
obviously very easy:
Purée the radish
leaves with the olive oil and garlic clove into a smooth pesto.
Cook the macaroni
al dente and combine it with the pesto.
Serve the dish
with a few french breakfast radishes and vegetarian pasta cheese
shavings (hold the cheese, if you want a vegan meal).
Enjoy and have a
great week!
Your VegHog
Oh I like the taste of radish leaf and have made many a recipe in the past, especially with homegrown radishes - this pesto woudl be a nice change from the basil version.
ReplyDeleteYes, I can't believe I only started utilising the whole radish plants a few years ago! Now I let some of them to grow to seed and eat the flowers and pods too, yummy! :)
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