Broad Bean Pesto
This green sauce is delicious stirred through pasta, spread on toast with crumbly cheese, or as a dip.
Recipe adapted from BBC Good Food.
Ingredients
300g podded fresh Broad beans
2 garlic cloves, halved lengthways
3 Cuca Anchovy fillets, chopped
25g La Vera grated Parmesan
juice and zest of ½ lemon
Method
- Cook the broad beans in a pan of boiling salted water for 3 minutes, until they float. Drain and quickly run under ice cold water to stop them cooking. Squeeze the small green beans from their skins and discard the skins.
- Fry the garlic and anchovies in a small pan for a few minutes, until golden, then stir through the broad beans. Transfer to a bowl (or use a mortar and pestle) and crush the broad beans with the Parmesan, lemon juice and zest and oil.
- Will keep in the fridge for 3 days.