Oil Free Kale Pesto Pasta

• Vegan

• Produce

  • 2 cup Baby kale, loosely packed
  • 1 cup Carrots (chopped up or made into pumpkins see here
  • 1 clove Garlic
  • 1 tsp Onion powder
  • 1 cup Peas
  • 2 cup Peas i used

• Condiments

  • 1 1/2 tbsp Lemon juice, Fresh Squeezed

• Pasta & Grains

  • 8 oz Pasta

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 Pinch Black pepper, fresh
  • 1/2 Pepper, yellow
  • 1 Pinch Salt optional but not necessary

• Liquids

  • 4 tbsp Water

Found on tworaspberries.com

Description

Ingredients

• - 8 oz. of pasta (GF if desired)
• - 2 cups of peas I used canned no sodium (1 cup for pesto and 1 cup to mix in with pasta)
• - ½ a yellow pepper
• - 1 cup carrots (chopped up or made into pumpkins see here for help)
• PESTO:
• - 2 cup loosely packed baby kale (spinach would be fine also)
• - 1 cup of peas (reserved from the 2 cups listed above)
• - 1 clove of garlic (optional, OR add ¼ tsp garlic powder instead)
• - 1 ½ TBSP fresh squeezed lemon juice
• - 4 TBSP water
• - 1 tsp onion powder
• - Pinch of fresh black pepper
• - Pinch of salt optional but not necessary

Directions

• First start by making the carrot pumpkinsif you are doing them, if not just chop up the carrots and set them aside. Chop up the pepper. The pepper can be added raw, or you can lightly sautee it up which is what I choose to do.
• Next bring a pot of water to a boil. Once boiling add the pasta to the water, set a timer for about 4-5 minutes, check the pasta at that time if it seems about half way done cooking then you want to add the carrots to the water so they can slightly cook, they won’t gt mushy but they will get a little more soft!
• While the pasta is cooking prepare the pesto by simply adding all the pesto ingredients into a mini food processor (must be a mini one otherwise it won’t get smooth because it’s not enough ingredients for a large food processor)
• Once the pasta is done cooking drain it and add into a large bowl. Add the other 1 cup of peas as well as the yellow pepper. Add the pesto to the pasta mixture and give it all a stir!
• Serves 2-3