One-pot Creamy Broccoli Pasta without onion and garlic
Ingredients
- 6 oz pasta 170g
- 6 oz fresh broccoli (or frozen broccoli florets) 170g
- 8 oz cottage cheese 225g
- ½ cup plain low fat yoghurt 120g
- ¾ teaspoon parsley flakes
- ¼ cup pasta water 60ml
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
Fresh Broccoli
- Wash broccoli. Remove with the knife broccoli crown from the broccoli stalk.
- Cut the broccoli crown into the broccoli florets (they should be 1 to 1 ½ inches (2.5 to 4 cm) in size).
- Cut broccoli stalk into small cubes (½ to 1-inch (2 to 2.5 cm)big cubes).
- If you are using frozen broccoli florets, skip this steps.
One pot pasta meal
- Fill the pot with water and put it to medium to high heat. Wait until the water boils.
- When the water boils, add salt, broccoli, and pasta. Cook it until broccoli is soft and pasta is al dente to soft.
- While broccoli and pasta are cooking, make the cottage cheese sauce. In the bowl mix cottage cheese, sour cream, parsley flakes, salt, and pepper. Mix it until combined. Before you strain the pasta, take ¼ cup pasta water, and mix it with cottage cheese sauce.
- When broccoli and pasta are cooked, strain them, and then put them back in the pot.
- Pour cheese sauce on hot pasta and broccoli. Mix it until pasta and broccoli are combined with the cottage cheese sauce.