Pasta with broccoli pesto sauce
Miranda Adams 8 Apr 2026 A delicious pasta dish that’s on the table in 10 minutes, with a sauce you can easily make by blending everything together. The cottage cheese makes it a protein-rich meal.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 10 min
- Total
- 20 min
- Level
- Easy
- Servings
- 3 servings
Ingredients
3 servings
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Sauce
15 g basil 
3 tbsp pine nuts or pistachios 
2 cloves garlic 
2 tbsp olive oil 
30 g parmesan 
½ lemon juice 
1 broccoli 
200 g cottage cheese 
1½ cups stock 
salt and pepper to taste
Pasta
250 g uncooked (gluten-free) pasta
Topping
1 burrata bulb- basil to taste
- roasted pine nut to taste
chilli flake to taste
Method
- Cook the pasta.
- Finely chop the broccoli and put it in the blender with all the remaining sauce ingredients.
- Blend until smooth.
- Then heat the sauce in a pan and add the pasta.
- Stir in a little extra basil.
- Serve the pasta with burrata, basil and chilli flakes.
Nutrition (per serving)
- 550kcal
- Energy
- 30g
- Protein
- 60g
- Carbohydrates
- 25g
- Fat
Protein 21% Carbohydrates 41% Fat 38%
All nutrition values
- Calories
- 550 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbohydrates
- 60 g
- of which sugars
- 5 g
- Fat
- 25 g
- of which saturated
- 10 g
- Fibre
- 8 g
- Salt
- 2 g
Values provided by the cook.
Allergens
Contains
- Milk
- Tree nuts
- Nightshades
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