Roasted Broccoli & Blue Cheese Pasta
This 3 ingredient, 30 minute meal will fill you up, get some greens on your plate and taste a little bit luxurious too. It's as simple as roasting some broccoli and stirring in pasta and blue cheese - this is what weeknight dinner dreams are made of.
Ingredients
- 1 head (600 g) broccoli, florets removed
- 8 oz (225 g) blue cheese, roughly chopped
- 10.5 oz pasta
Instructions
- Lightly toss the broccoli florets in olive oil and add salt and pepper as desired. Place in the oven at 180C (360F) and set the timer for 20 minutes.
- Set the pasta cooking according to package instructions. (By the time the water has boiled and the pasta gets cooking, this usually puts you on course for the pasta being ready around the same time as the broccoli.)
- Once the broccoli has 5 minutes of cooking time left, open the oven and put the blue cheese on top. Return to the oven for those last few minutes so the cheese can melt.
- Reserve a mugful of the pasta cooking water and then drain the pasta.
- Remove the broccoli from the oven, pour the pasta into the pan with the broccoli and use a wooden spoon to mix it all together. The blue cheese will continue to melt as it coats the hot pasta. It may clump up and get stringy - add splashes of the pasta cooking water as required to make the sauce silkier.
- Serve.
Notes
This makes 2 huge portions for hungry grown ups, or 2 reasonable portions + leftover lunch / kids portions.
Serving: 1g, Calories: 270kcal, Carbohydrates: 15g, Protein: 17g, Fat: 17g, Saturated Fat: 11g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 4g, Cholesterol: 43mg, Sodium: 1231mg, Potassium: 872mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 6g, Vitamin A: 1702IU, Vitamin C: 141mg, Calcium: 380mg, Iron: 2mg