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Pasta | Rice | Barley  /  22.05.2019

Spring pasta with wild garlic pesto

by Anna Chwistek
Anna Chwistek
20 minutes
Servings serves 2

serving dumplings | Spring pasta with wild garlic pesto

I do love a good bowl of pasta, usually combined with a marinara sauce with lots of vegetables and herbs or a pesto mix with extra greens. I was dreaming about a pesto with wild garlic (never tried it before) and finally found some last week!
Wild garlic leaves and flowers are edible. Young leaves are delicious when added to soups, sauces or pesto. The flowers can add a potent garlic punch to salads.
So I made a delicious wild garlic sauce, all tinted green with chives and basil. I didn’t want to overpower its delicate taste, so reached for sunflower seeds, then combined with all kinds of herbs, miso, parmesan and lemon. It’s an incredibly bright, creamy and refreshing pesto with a crunchy bite due to the sunflower seeds. It tastes like springtime in a bowl and there’s nothing I love more than fresh seasonal flavors. And it’s ready in 20 minutes, which is preferable for me these days.

Tip: If you can’t find wild garlic, feel free to use spinach or young nettle combined with 2 garlic cloves.

Ingredients

wild garlic pesto

  • 20 g wild garlic
  • 10 g basil leaves
  • 5g chives
  • 30 g freshly grated parmesan
  • 5 tbs rapeseed oil
  • 2 tbs water
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 1 tbs lemon juice
  • 1 tsp miso
  • sea salt + ground black pepper

to finish

  • 250 g spaghetti
  • 2 tbs olive oil
  • toasted sunflower seeds
  • extra wild garlic leaves or spinach
  • finely chopped chives and basil leaves for garnish
  • grated parmesan

serving dumplings | Spring pasta with wild garlic pesto serving dumplings | Spring pasta with wild garlic pesto

Instructions

Put the ingredients for the pesto in a bowl of a food processor. Run on high speed until a smooth consistency. Stop to scrape the sides down a couple times. Check the pesto for seasoning, adjust and set aside.

Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Cook the pasta al dente, drain, reserving some of the cooking water.

In the same saucepan, heat olive oil, add wild garlic leaves (or spinach) and cook for a few seconds. Add pasta, some of the cooking water and a squeeze of lemon juice. Gently stir the green pesto into the pasta to coat it, then immediately divide the pasta between your bowls. Top with chopped chives and basil, Parmesan cheese and sunflower seeds, serve.

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Tags

  • fast dishes
  • healthy
  • pasta
  • veggie

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8 comments

  • Choclette
    1.06.2019

    Wild garlic pesto is probably my favourite pesto. This year is the first in a long time when I didn’t manage to forage any leaves and make some of this delicious sauce.

    Reply
    • Anna
      2.06.2019

      Yes, it’s so delicious. It was the first time that I managed to finally make some wild garlic pesto.

      Reply
  • Ceri Jones
    12.06.2019

    Such delicious flavours in here. I was lucky enough to cook with fresh chive flowers a few weeks ago – so pretty and oniony too. Love this pasta!

    Reply
    • Anna
      18.06.2019

      So great indeed! Thank you!

      Reply
  • Angela Roberts
    17.06.2019

    Chives garlic and pasta make a perfect trio. Can’t wait to eat this.

    Reply
    • Anna
      18.06.2019

      So delicious, enjoy!!

      Reply
  • Sisley White
    17.06.2019

    Your photography is stunning! I love this dish and wild garlic is definitely not used enough.

    Reply
    • Anna
      18.06.2019

      thank you so much!

      Reply

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