Quick winter recipe for 4 people, takes only 15 mins; recipe has pasta, olive oil, bacon lardon, garlic clove, red chilli, pine nut, kale, cream cheese and lemon.
Kale & smoky bacon pasta
Course: Quick winter
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
5 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- Red Chilli: 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- Olive Oil: 1 tbsp olive oil
- Pasta: 300g pasta (we used wholewheat fusilli)
- Lemon: 1/2 lemon, juiced
- Kale: 200g chopped curly kale
- Pine Nut: 4 tbsp pine nuts
- Cream Cheese: 3 tbsp cream cheese
- Bacon Lardon: 180g pack smoked bacon lardons
Directions
- Boil a large pan of water and cook the pasta following pack instructions.
- Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat and cook the lardons for a few mins until golden and a little crisp. Stir in the garlic, red chilli and pine nuts, then cook for 1 min more until the garlic and chilli are softened and the pine nuts just toasted.
- Turn up the heat and add the kale to the pan with a splash of water, cover and cook for 3-4 mins until wilted. Drain the cooked pasta and add to the pan with the cream cheese and lemon juice. Toss together, taste, and season with black pepper.
