Low Cal Creamy Pesto With Broccoli and Angel Hair

"A lower fat/calorie creamy pesto sauce"
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
11
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Put the water and salt on to boil.
  • After boiling, add pasta to the pot and cook for 8 minutes.
  • In a large bowl put the oil, basil and garlic, then mix with a whisk.
  • Add the cream cheese to the bowl.
  • Now add the broccoli to the boilng pasta in the pot and cook for 3 to 4 more minutes.
  • When time is up, drain pasta mixture in sink, then immediately add the hot pasta mixture to the items in the bowl.
  • Stir well to distribute.
  • Add the fat free half and half, the parmesan cheese and the chopped nuts.

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Reviews

  1. Very pleasant, maybe a little bland for our taste, but a good pasta dish. Another time, I would use fresh basil, and perhaps finely chop some sun-dried tomatoes into it, although that would change the fat/calorie, count, of course. A nice supper dish, though!
     
  2. Will make again, didn't change a thing. Made for Fall PAC 2008.
     
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