Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lentil penne with asparagus. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lentil penne with asparagus using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil Penne with Asparagus:
- Take 6 asparagus stalks
- Prepare Half punnet of quartered cherry tomatoes
- Take Handful chopped pitted black olives
- Prepare 200 g red lentil pasta
- Get 3 finely chopped garlic cloves
- Make ready 100 ml pesto
Steps to make Lentil Penne with Asparagus:
- Heat some butter or oil in a pan on a medium heat, chop up your asparagus into inch long sections and add
- In the meantime, add the pasta (with a healthy pinch of salt) to a pan of boiling water
- When the asparagus changes colour to a rich green, add the garlic, tomatoes and olives
- The tomatoes will begin to soften, when they do, remove the pan from the heat. Add the pasta when it's to your liking, mix in the pesto and you're ready to serve
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