Purple sprouting broccoli pasta recipe
- Felicity Vincent
- Mar 15
- 2 min read
An easy midweek pasta that's both healthy and delicious!
The perfect purple sprouting broccoli recipe to showcase this seasonal ingredient.
The combination of a rich silky sauce with miso, brown butter and wild garlic, mixed with tender broccoli and pasta works so nicely.
Ingredients (serves 2):
Purple sprouting & brown butter pasta recipe:
200g purple sprouting broccoli
40g butter
10g wild garlic (or a small garlic clove)
18g parmesan
1 lemon
30g walnuts
1 tsp miso paste
160g pasta
Method:
Slice up the purple sprouting into bitesize pieces. Blanch it by cooking in salted boiling water for 6 minutes, then drain and rinse under cold water.
Zest the lemon and save to the side.
In a food processor, blend together the wild garlic/peeled garlic clove with the parmesan, walnuts, lemon juice and salt.
Put the pasta on to cook.
In a large pan, add the butter and lemon zest and leave to brown on medium heat for 5 minutes. It should start to foam up before turning brown. Immediately add the broccoli to stop the butter burning, then the miso and about 1/2 mug full of the pasta cooking water.
Once al dente, drain the pasta and add to the sauce. Stir until the pasta is evenly coated, add a bit more water if needed.
Finish with a grating of parmesan and dig in, bon appétit!
More about this purple sprouting broccoli recipe:
Shortcuts:
To make this recipe speedier, forget the food processor and simply add a bit of parmesan and lemon juice to the pasta before serving.
Keys to success:
Make sure the walnut paste is smooth for silky texture.
Avoid burning the butter, add th broccoli as soon as it starts to turn brown and stir.
Mood Food - Happy::
Folate - not having enough folate increases the chance of feeling depressed.
Calcium - needed for the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin, one of our good mood hormones.
Anthocyanins - inhibits MAO which breaks down the hormone dopamine. Excess MAO can sometimes be the cause of depression.
Delphinidin (a type of anthocyanin)- reduces ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) expression and therefore lowers blood pressure.
Vitamin C - involved in converting dopamine to noradrenaline - low amounts of noradrenaline are associated with depression.
Hopefully this makes you excited to try this and many other sprouting broccoli recipes during their season!
You can find lots of ideas on how to cook with purple sprouting in my newsletter: https://felicityvincent.substack.com/
Video:
Cook along with this step-by-step video and learn how to make my easy purple sprouting pasta recipe:
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