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Creamy pasta with asparagus & peas
Description
Take five ingredients and whip up this simple green vegetable fusilli supper for two, plus hit 3 of your 5-a-day
Ingredients
- 250g fusilli or your favourite pasta shape
- 300g asparagus spear, woody ends removed, cut into lengths
- 175g frozen pea
- zest and juice ½ lemon
- 100g soft cheese with chives
Directions
- Cook the pasta following the pack instructions. Two minutes before the end of the cooking time, add the asparagus and peas. Boil everything together for the final 2 mins, then scoop out and reserve a cup of the cooking liquid from the pan before draining the pasta and veg.
- Return the pasta and veg to the pan and add the lemon zest, soft cheese and seasoning. Add a squeeze of lemon juice to taste and stir in 2-3 tbsp of the cooking liquid to loosen the sauce.