Courgetti with pesto and green beans
Courgetti with pesto and green beans

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, courgetti with pesto and green beans. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Spiralise the courgettes. (Or use ready made courgetti). Take some green beans, trim the ends and steam until tender but still crunchy. Usually only takes a minute or two.

Courgetti with pesto and green beans is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Courgetti with pesto and green beans is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have courgetti with pesto and green beans using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Courgetti with pesto and green beans:
  1. Make ready 2 large courgettes spiralised
  2. Get 4 tbsp fresh pesto (see my other recipes for how to make)
  3. Take 1 pack green beans
  4. Take 1 handful cherry tomatoes
  5. Get 2 tbsp pine nuts
  6. Make ready Parmesan cheese (or dairy free/vegan alternative)
  7. Get Salt and pepper

All you need is fresh green beans, garlic, pesto and pine nuts to make this easy, healthy, and But now, green beans are actually my go-to veggies. I usually steam my green beans. Hugh serves up a double carb helping with this homemade walnut and parsley pesto with potatoes, pasta and green beans! Try our easy 'courgetti' recipe, made with baby plum tomatoes, garlic, pesto, pine nuts and a lot of courgette noodles.

Steps to make Courgetti with pesto and green beans:
  1. Spiralise the courgettes. (Or use ready made courgetti)
  2. Make the pesto. (Or use bought instead). Please see my other recipes for how to make.
  3. Put the green beans and courgetti into separate pans, add boiling water and cook for 2-5 mins. You could cook together if the pan is big enough.
  4. One cooked, drain both together in a colander.
  5. Return to the pan (not on the heat) and stir in the pesto.
  6. Dish up onto plates and add tomatoes, pine nuts, salt and pepper to season and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Enjoy!

This classic Genovese method of preparing pasta with pesto includes cubes of potato and pieces of green bean, all cooked together in the pasta pot until tender. Toss well to emulsify pesto and pasta water into a creamy sauce. This combination of pesto, potato and green beans with trenette (a long pasta similar to linguine) is a classic dish from the region. Alternatively, you can make the pesto in a blender. Place the ingredients in the blender and process on the lowest speed, and pulse.

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