Recipe of Award-winning Fresh Pesto with Courgette Spaghetti

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We've served our courgette spaghetti with home made pesto and seasoned, pan fried chicken fillets. All you need to do is blend a few ingredients and you've got a fresh and punchy sauce. For the courgetti spaghetti, peel spaghetti-like strands from the courgettes using a julienne peeler, collecting them in a large mixing bowl. Dollop the pesto on top of the courgette strands and carefully stir until the courgette is evenly coated.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fresh pesto with courgette spaghetti using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fresh Pesto with Courgette Spaghetti:

1. Make ready garlic, crushed
2. Get fresh basil, washed and stalks removed
3. Prepare pine nuts, very lightly toasted
4. Prepare parmesan cheese, finely grated
5. Get olive oil
6. Make ready Freshly ground black pepper
7. Prepare salt
8. Take courgettes cut into spaghetti

Using a julienne peeler/cutter, cut the unpeeled courgettes into long, spaghetti-like strips (stop when you get. In a mixing bowl, add a generous spoon of pesto to the courgette, plus the halved cherry tomatoes. Annabel Karmel's courgette spaghetti is a brilliant alternative to traditional spaghetti, full of vegetables and with a wonderfully smooth taste. The courgette is lightly pan-fried which means it retains a little crunch - perfect when contrasted to the succulent tomatoes that burst in your mouth with flavour.

Steps to make Fresh Pesto with Courgette Spaghetti:

1. Add the garlic, salt and pine nuts to a food processor (or use a pestle and motar). Pulse mix until the pine nuts are well ground.
2. Add the basil leaves and pulse blend again until the leaves are well combined.
3. Tip the mixture into a medium sized bowl and stir in half of the parmesan.
4. Add 3 tsp of olive oil and stir gently.
5. Add the salt and the rest of the parmesan and stir gently again. Add in the remaining olive oil tsp by tsp until you get the right consistency (it should be a thick, oozing paste). Season to taste with black pepper and more salt if required.
6. You can serve the pesto with hot or raw, cold courgette spaghetti. If serving hot, stir fry the courgette spaghetti in a wok for 2 minutes then stir through the pesto just before serving.

Annabel Karmel's courgette spaghetti is a brilliant alternative to traditional spaghetti, full of vegetables and with a wonderfully smooth taste. The courgette is lightly pan-fried which means it retains a little crunch - perfect when contrasted to the succulent tomatoes that burst in your mouth with flavour. Spiralize courgettes to make courgetti spaghetti, then set aside. Add sauce and courgetti spaghetti to the frying pan and gently heat for a couple a minutes to warm the dish up and soften the pasta. Combine the pesto with the spaghetti, tomatoes and avocado and serve cold, or this can be very gently warmed through in a pan if you prefer.

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