Creamy Green Pasta

One of my favourite mid-week meals. Healthy, easy, quick, cheap pasta. It's extremely customisable: blitz some beans or chickpeas with greens into a creamy sauce and stir into whatever pasta you've got.

Great

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

Put the pasta on to boil for 13 minutes in salted water

Step 2

Meanwhile, toast the seeds with 1 tbsp of oil, and the clove of garlic, bashed to release its flavour until it smells fragrant (around 3 minutes).

Step 3

Put the remaining ingredients apart from the cheese into a blender, including the water from the beans, with the garlic from toasting the seeds. Blend to a smooth purée.

Step 4

Drain the pasta, reserving some of the water.

Step 5

Put the pasta back into the pot and back on the heat, stir through the sauce, add a little pasta water to get a creamy texture and heat through

Step 6

Plate the pasta, sprinkle over the seeds and grate over the cheese.