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Midweek meal: For an easy win, try Mary Berry’s spaghetti with peas and pesto

Mary Berry's spaghetti with peas and pesto. Image: PA Photo/Laura Edwards.
Mary Berry's spaghetti with peas and pesto. Image: PA Photo/Laura Edwards.

Like many of Mary Berry’s recipes, this dish is fresh, easy and tasty.

Berry calls this “a quick and easy midweek pasta dish”.

She says: “Adding peas to the pesto gives a lovely natural fresh flavour. Use fresh garden peas, if you grow them, instead of petit pois.

“We have used cashew nuts instead of pine nuts in the pesto to give creaminess to the sauce.”

Mary Berry’s spaghetti with peas and pesto

(Serves 4-6)

Mary Berry’s spaghetti peas and pesto.

Ingredients

  • 350g spaghetti
  • For the pea pesto:
  • 250g frozen petit pois
  • 115g unsalted cashew nuts
  • 55g Parmesan, grated, plus extra to serve (optional)
  • 2 large garlic cloves, halved
  • Large bunch of basil, roughly chopped
  • 100ml olive oil
Mary Berry. Image: PA Photo/Laura Edwards.

Method

  1. Cook the peas in a saucepan of boiling water for three minutes. Drain and refresh under cold water. Drain again.
  2. Place half the peas in a small food processor and add the nuts, cheese, garlic and basil. Whiz until finely chopped. Slowly add the oil, a little a time, until you have a paste consistency. Season with salt to taste.
  3. Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water according to the packet instructions. Reserve 50ml of the pasta water before draining.
  4. Place the pesto in a large non-stick frying pan, add the reserved peas and the cooked spaghetti and a little of the pasta water. Toss everything over a high heat until well coated.
  5. Season well with freshly ground black pepper and serve with extra Parmesan, if liked.

For more midweek meal ideas, check out our archive.

Cook And Share by Mary Berry is published in hardback by BBC Books, priced £27. Photography by Laura Edwards. Available now.