Vegetable Pasta With Goats Cheese

Pasta With Red Pepper, Veg And Goat's Cheese

Vegetable Pasta With Cheese

What can you do with some leek, purple sprouting broccoli, a courgette and some pasta? Add some goat’s cheese and you have a really tasty and quick and easy to cook midweek supper! Goat’s cheese goes really well with all these vegetables.

I also added a handful of flaked almonds to add a bit of crunch and texture. Almonds are really good for you too..

A really tasty meal from some vegetables, some pasta and some goat’s cheese. You don’t need lots of fancy flavours to make an amazingly tasty meal!

A Few Vegetables – Some Pasta And Some Cheese

I like it when I have a few ingredients to put together to make a meal. Having many basics in the cupboard such as pasta, rice nd lentils means that I always have a base on which to create a meal. I had seen a piece of goats cheese on offer in the supermarket and thought that it would be a good addition to the purple sproutng broccoli I had bought

Purple Sprouting Broccoli

Purple sprouting broccoli is in season from January through to April. It is often not available in the supermarkets and when it is, it tends to be very expensive. However if you go to your local farm shop or farmers market you will probably find it very reasonably priced. Read more about purple sprouting broccoli – and add to the comments as to how you cooked yours

A Word On The Vegetables

I used a romero pepper – the long ones that look a bit like a big chilli. They are often sweeter than bell peppers but you can use just an ordinary red bell pepper instead or even a green pepper!

You can make this recipe with perhaps only two of the four vegetables and you can always add something different such as mushrooms or peas.

You could use a different cheese too but the soft goats cheese is really delicious with this combination of vegetables. Best seasoned with plenty of black pepper too!

Pasta With Vegetables And Goats Cheese

Prep time: 5 minutes

Cook time: 20 minutes

Total time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 medium leeks
• 1 romero pepper (or red bell pepper)
• 1 courgette
• 250g purple sprouting broccoli
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
• Handful sliced almonds
• 100g soft goats cheese
• 350g pasta shapes
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Cooking Directions

1. Slice the leeks discarding the root end. Include some of the darker green end.

2. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan

3. Add the chopped leeks

4. Deseed and chop the pepper

5. Ad dthe othe pan

6. Slcie the courgette

7. Add to the pan

8. Trim the purple sprouting broccoli, discarding the thick stalks

9. Lightly steam for 5 minutes before adding to the other vegetables

10. Add the garlic, stir and continue cooking over a low heat

11. Meanwhile put the pasta in a large saucepan

12. Cover with boiling water and simmer for 12-15 minutes

13. When the pasta is almost ready, add the almonds to the vegetable mix and stir

14. Chop the cheese into chunks and lay on top of the vegetables and the genetly stir so that the goats cheese warms and melts a little

15. Drain the pasta and serve with the vegetable mix on top.

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