Hello Creamy Broccoli Pasta Bake – Recipe

• adagok: 4 servings
• teljes idő: 40 minutes

Hozzávalók

Lots of you always ask for nutritious meals that the whole family will enjoy and this is one of those crowd-pleasers. Pasta, creamy sauce, hidden greens, all baked until golden brown and perfectly crisp on top.

It’s also ready with just a few steps of prep - boil the pasta, blitz together the sauce and blitz together the topping, then assemble and bake!

For a bake to serve 4:

225 g pasta (4 servings; we use macaroni or rigatoni)

1 head broccoli (about 300g / 10.5 oz), cut into small florets & stalk roughly chopped

1 leek, thinly sliced

1 x 400g tin butter beans, drained & rinsed

200g frozen peas, defrosted

1 tablespoon olive oil

200g cashews

1 vegetable stock cube

3 tablespoons wholegrain mustard

4 tablespoons nutritional yeast

pinch of sea salt & black pepper

For the topping

100g sourdough bread

1 handful of kale (about 50g / 1.8 oz)

1 tablespoon olive oil

pinch of flaky sea salt

Útmutatók

Preheat the oven to 160°C fan / 350°F. Put the cashews and stock cube into a high-speed blender and pour in 400ml / 13.5 fl oz of boiling water. Leave to soak for 5–10 minutes.

Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil; add the pasta and cook for 5 minutes.

Add the broccoli and leek to the pan with the pasta and bring back to the boil, then quickly remove from the heat and drain. Transfer everything to a medium ovenproof dish. Stir in the butter beans, peas and olive oil.

Add the mustard, nutritional yeast, a pinch of salt and plenty of black pepper to the blender with the cashews and stock; blitz until completely smooth. Pour the sauce over the pasta mixture, stir everything together, then taste to check the seasoning and adjust as needed.

To make the topping, blitz the bread in a food processor to make large breadcrumbs, then add the kale and pulse briefly to combine. Stir through the olive oil and a pinch of salt, then scatter over the pasta. Bake in the oven for 25–30 minutes until crisp and golden.