Spinach & Garlic Scapes Pasta

"Scapes are much milder than garlic & make a very tasty sauce to accompany your choice of pasta. The cooking time is for the pasta. Edit on July 17: I made this for the first time last night & found the garlic flavour overpowering! C.L."
 
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Ready In:
15mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
4

ingredients

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directions

  • Place spinach, garlic scapes& parmesan in a food processor& pulse until mixture is chunky.
  • With machine running, pour in olive oil.
  • Process until mixture is smooth.
  • Add butter& seasonings to taste.
  • Meanwhile, cook pasta as directed on package until el dente.
  • If the sauce is too thick, add a little pasta water& mix well.
  • Drain pasta, place in serving dishes& top with sauce.

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Reviews

  1. Wow! This was delicious. I did not find the garlic flavor overpowering at all. I used whole wheat spaghetti for an even healthier treat. I just wish that garlic scapes were available all year round, because where I live you can only find them at the farmers market during the summer. Thank you for helping me utilize a new ingredient in such a flavorful way.
     
  2. I made this for dinner and before we finished we all wanted to make it again for dinner the very next night! I am not sure you can imagine the taste by just reading the ingredients in this recipe, but it is worth trying to find out. I did not have garlic scapes so I used chopped jar garlic instead. I used 2 Tbsp, which, while it tasted wonderful, was a little hard on my stomach. I will probably try it next time with 1 Tbsp garlic. Better yet, I would like to track down garlic scapes and try that. I also used canned parmesan, which I had on hand, and now I am really looking forward to trying this with freshly grated parmesan. Also, the fresh ground pepper really rounded out the flavors. I cannot say enough about this recipe it was so simple and so very good.
     
  3. This was quite a dish, it was the best pasta I've ever had, I would recommend it to anyone!!
     
  4. Good, DD's (5 years old & 20 months old) liked this pasta dish although i found it quite strong in garlic flavour. I made our gluten free by using a quinoa rice pasta. It was my first try of garlic scapes which came in our local organic produce basket this week, along with organic spinach, I used freshly grated Romano cheese from a local italian shop instead of Parmesan as that is what I had on hand, organic olive oil, organic butter, grey sea salt, a perfect salt, plus the freshly ground black pepper.
     
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