Pasta With Almond-pea Pesto

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• coarse salt
• pepper
• 1 lb penne pasta
• 2 (10 ounce) packages frozen peas, thawed
• 1/2 cup blanched almond
• 1 lemon, juice and zest of
• 1/4 cup olive oil

Recipe

• 1 cook pasta in large pot until al dente, adding 1 package of peas during last minute of cooking time.
• 2 reserve 1 cup pasta water.
• 3 drain pasta/peas mixture and return to pot.
• 4 in a food processor, finely grind almonds. add lemon zest and juice, remaining package of peas, and 1.5 teaspoons salt.
• 5 process until well-combined.
• 6 gradually add oil, process until smooth.
• 7 add almond-pea pesto to pasta, toss to coat, adding reserved pasta water as needed.
• 8 season with salt and pepper.
• 9 serve.