Kids' Pesto Monster Noodles
Serves 2 | with Bocconcini
Thanks to flavourful pesto and tender zucchini, spooky green pasta is on today's lunch menu! Have fun creating these monster noodle plates with the kids by making eyes out of bocconcini and olives!
Ingredients: Zucchini • Spaghetti (durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulphate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) (wheat) • Basil pesto (basil, water, soy oil, parsley, sunflower seeds, garlic, parmesan cheese (milk, bacterial culture, salt, lipase, calcium chloride, rennet/ microbial enzyme, powdered cellulose), salt, modified corn starch, nutritional yeast, citric acid, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Bocconcini cheese (pasteurized milk, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, bacterial culture) (milk) • Mixed olives (pitted green olives, pitted kalamata olives, water, salt, lactic acid, potassium sorbate, vinegar, calcium chloride).
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, and wheat.
Ingredients
170 g
Spaghetti
(Contains: Wheat)
½ cup
Basil Pesto
(Contains: Milk May contain traces of: Soy, Sulphites)
100 g
Bocconcini Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
30 g
Mixed Olives
(May contain traces of: Sulphites, Wheat, Milk, Egg, Fish, Tree nuts)
1 unit(s)
Zucchini
Not included in your delivery
0.06 tsp
Salt*
0.06 tsp
Pepper*
2 tsp
Unsalted Butter*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Add spaghetti to the boiling water. Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until tender, 10-12 min.
- Reserve 1/4 cup pasta water, then drain and return noodles to the same pot, off heat.
- Meanwhile, drain, then slice olives into 1/4-inch rounds.
- Finely grate zucchini.
- Drain, then pat bocconcini dry with paper towels.
- Heat a medium non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- When hot, add 2 tsp butter, then zucchini. Cook, stirring occasionally, until zucchini is tender and has released some of its liquid, 3-4 min.
- Add pesto and reserved pasta water. Season with salt and pepper, then stir until combined and sauce is warmed through. Add sauce to the pot with noodles, then toss to combine.
- Divide noodles between plates.
- Create 'eyes' for your monsters by arranging two bocconcini side by side on each plate of noodles. Finish the 'eyes' by placing one olive slice in the middle of each bocconcini, pressing down to adhere.
- Sprinkle remaining olives over pasta, if desired.
