Vegetables With Pesto and Parmesan Thins

"A perfect starter or a good light lunch... I make this for special occasions and dinner parties."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
19
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • ------Pesto sauce---------.
  • Lightly toast pine nuts.
  • In a food processor (or with a pestle and mortar), mix the basil, pine nuts and cheese into a paste.
  • Add oil and blend to a smooth paste.
  • Keep in an airtight jar in the fridge.
  • ------Vegetables-------.
  • Bake the potatoes until they are soft, let them cool and split them in half.
  • Sprinkle a little salt and Cayenne pepper onto the potatoes and using a knife put small"slits" into them.
  • Using a steamer, cook the broccoli and the asparagus for no more than 3 minutes on a very high heat, they must be crisp, not mushy.
  • Place in an oiled oven dish on a low heat to keep warm.
  • Using a large skillet, heat butter and oil and fry the potatoes until slightly crispy on the flat side. Set them aside.
  • Add more butter if necessary and fry circles of aubergine and the Courgette until cooked but crisp.
  • Place in the oven dish.
  • Now fry the asparagus, coat with butter and oil thats in the pan, don't let it cook too much or they will loose the crunch.
  • Add broccoli and toss in the butter.
  • Set aside in the oven dish Add cherry tomatoes and"caramelize".
  • Warm plates.
  • Set up as follows:Take Parmesan thins and place to one side of plate.
  • Put asparagus fanning out from the parmesan, with a cherry tomatoe between each piece.
  • Arrange other ingredients as is convenient.
  • Heat up some double cream and add 4 Tbsp pesto.
  • Drizzle over the vegetables.
  • Accompany with a chilled white wine and serve "Mushroom Puffs" as the main course.

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Well...I'm 21 Y/o, I was raised in Ibiza, but born in england! I'll eat anything twice and love trying new and unusual things... things with a high "ick" factor tend to put me off, but on recomendation I will try them. You can contact me by e-mail or through MSN messanger using ymmas6969@hotmail.com (the 69's are because Ymmas by itself was already taken...dont be so dirty minded *LOL*)
 
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