Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, fresh asparagus and pesto sauce for pasta. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fresh asparagus and pesto sauce for pasta using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Fresh Asparagus And Pesto Sauce For Pasta:

1. Prepare 12 Asparagus tips
2. Make ready 3 Baby courgettes
3. Get 4 Spring onions
4. Get 1 tsp Pesto
5. Prepare 1 tbsp Fromage frais
6. Get 1 tsp Soft cheese
7. Make ready 1 clove Garlic
8. Get 1 pinch Salt and black pepper
9. Get 1 pinch Mixed dried herbs
10. Make ready 1 unit Half lemon zest and squeeze of juice
11. Make ready 1 as needed Pasta of your choice, tagliatelle is good with this.
12. Take 1 unit Finely grated parmesan

Steps to make Fresh Asparagus And Pesto Sauce For Pasta:

1. Roughly chop the asparagus, courgette, onions and garlic. Add these to a pan, add boiling water enough to just cover the veg and a pinch of salt. Blanch for 3-4 minutes.
2. Turn pan off the heat and allow to cool for a few minutes. do not drain the water! With a hand held blender (or transfer to a food processer), roughly blend untill you have a sauce consistency. Add the remaining ingredients apart from the Parmesan and blend further untill desired consistancy. I prefer mine still with a bit of texture so I dont completely purée it.
3. Reheat the sauce for about 5 minutes. Serve over pasta and add Parmesan over the top. If you want a protein with this, chicken or fish would go well, or even stir through some cooked pancetta. I served this with salmon.

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