Pasta with Walnut Sauce

Pasta with Walnut Sauce
Pasta with Walnut Sauce might be a good recipe to expand your main course collection. This recipe makes 10 servings with 515 calories, 16g of protein, and 18g of fat each. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 20 minutes. If you have parmesan, any flat short pasta, olive oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the bread you could follow this main course with the Coffee Cake Banana Bread as a dessert.

Instructions

1
Put a large saucepan of water on to boil, and toast the walnuts in a dry frying pan until they begin to make a nutty aroma.
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Put the bread in a bowl and cover with the milk. Put most of the toasted walnuts (reserving about 1 ounce for garnish) into a blender along with the garlic, bread soaked in milk, and Parmesan. Blend until it turns smooth and creamy, then pour in the oil and season well with salt and pepper before blending again.
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3
Pour into a bowl, and set aside.
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Add pasta to boiling water with salt and cook for the required amount of time. When pasta is al dente, reserve a cup of the pasta cooking liquid and then drain the pasta, but put it in to a large bowl while it's still dripping slightly with water.
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Sprinkle a little olive oil over the pasta to prevent it sticking together, and then add the walnut sauce, mixing it into the pasta (splash in a little pasta cooking liquid to make the sauce less thick if needed).
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6
Roughly chop the remaining walnuts and toss them over the top along with some more Parmesan and the chopped parsley.
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DifficultyNormal
Ready In20 m.
Servings10
Health Score40
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