Spinach pesto pasta with olives

Name: Spinach pesto pasta with olives
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 400 grams fusilli; 500 grams spinach; 2 garlic cloves; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 200 grams pack reduced-fat feta-style cheese; 50 grams pine nuts; 1 pinch good nutmeg; 1 handful black olives, roughly chopped

Spinach pesto pasta with olives takes roughly 20 minutes from beginning to end. One portion of this dish contains roughly 31g of protein, 35g of fat, and a total of 758 calories. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 41% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a main course. A mixture of pine nuts, spinach, pack cheese, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. Feta, Pesto And Black Olives Pasta, Pasta with Mushrooms Olives Fetan and Pesto, and Roasted Red Pepper Pesto Pasta with Fetan and Kalamatan Olives are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Boil the pasta according to pack instructions. Meanwhile, boil a kettle of water, then slowly pour over the spinach in a colander until it wilts. Shake off the excess water, then put the spinach into a food processor.

Ingredients you will need

Spinach

Pasta

Shake

Water

Equipment you will use

Food Processor

Colander

Add the garlic, oil, half of the cheese and most of the pine nuts to the processor with the spinach, then pulse to a pesto-like sauce. Season with the nutmeg and salt and pepper. Stir through the hot, drained pasta and serve topped with the olives and the remaining crumbled cheese and pine nuts.

Ingredients you will need

Cheese