Pasta with flat green bean pesto.
Today I want to delight you with a beautiful main course.
Mezze maniche, after spaghettoni, are my favorite type of pasta, and after trying out all kinds of pestos, I wanted to venture into this one with flat green beans.
This type of green bean should not only be consumed for their deliciousness, but also for their extraordinary nutritional content.
Apart from a high content of plant proteins making them perfect as meat substitutes, they are rich in fiber, potassium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin C, and K.
I will show you both the traditional preparation and the one with the Thermomix.

Thought for you:

Difficulty: Very Easy
Cost: Very Cheap
Preparation time: 5 Minutes
Portions: 2
Cooking methods: Boiling
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: Spring, Summer

170.01 Kcal

calories per serving

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Energy 170.01 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 22.38 (g) of which sugars 3.98 (g)
Proteins 8.88 (g)
Fat 3.94 (g) of which saturated 1.89 (g)of which unsaturated 0.28 (g)
Fibers 5.54 (g)
Sodium 1,671.63 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 300 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Ingredients

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10.5 oz flat green beans
2 cloves garlic
to taste salt
to taste water
1 bunch chopped parsley
1 chili pepper
0.7 oz Pecorino Romano (grated)
4.2 oz pasta (mezze maniche)

Tools

What we need to prepare

Pot
Colander
Pan
Immersion Blender
Small Bowl

Preparation

Traditional Cooking

Wash the flat green beans, and trim the ends,
Put a pot with water and salt on the heat, and bring to a boil.
Once it boils, add the green beans, and cook them for 10 minutes.
After this time, drain them without discarding the cooking water, and cool them under running water, so they retain their bright green color.
Peel the garlic and chop the parsley.
If you like, add some chopped chili pepper.
Meanwhile, in a pan, put olive oil, the chili pepper, the garlic, and chopped parsley, and let it flavor for 1 minute, then…
Add the green beans, adjust the salt, and sauté in the pan to flavor.
Put the green bean cooking water back on the heat, and that’s where we’ll cook the pasta, and in the meantime…
Take half of the green beans and chop them coarsely, and set them aside in a bowl, while with the rest…
We will make the pesto, adding the Pecorino Romano and a little of the sauce from the pan.
We will combine the pesto with the chopped green beans, and mix them. If you like the mixture more liquid, you can add a little pasta cooking water.
At this point, we will drain the pasta and pour it into the same pan where we cooked the green beans, add the pesto and the green beans, and blend on the heat for 1 minute.
We will serve immediately.
Here is the Pasta with flat green bean pesto,
Traditional Cooking.
Wash the flat green beans, and trim the ends
Put 250 g of water into the bowl, place the basket and put the green beans inside it.
Close the bowl with the lid and steam: 7 min./Varoma/speed 1. Remove the basket with the help of the spatula, empty and dry the bowl.
Put the garlic, parsley, and chili pepper in the bowl, Chop for 10 sec. speed 5.
Gather with the spatula.
Add, extra virgin olive oil and cooked green beans. Place the splash guard on the bowl lid and set to High temperature
Take half of the green beans and chop them coarsely, and set them aside in a bowl, while with the rest…
We will make the pesto, adding the Pecorino Romano and a little of the sauce from the pan. 20 sec speed 10.
Gather with the spatula and combine with the previously set aside green beans,
At this point, we will cook and drain the pasta and pour it into a pan, add the pesto and the green beans, and blend on the heat for 1 minute.
Serve immediately.
Here is the Pasta with flat green bean pesto, with the Bimby TM6 cooking