ingredients:
- (whole grain) pasta,
- green asparagus,
- roasted pine nuts,
- garlic,
- parmesan cheese.
you also need: salt, pepper, olive oil, and a dash of lemon juice or white wine.
how-to:
- roast pine nuts without burning them (on a nine-scale stove, I use 8 and it takes about 3 minutes. do not wanter away for this. really. just don’t.)
- when the pasta is in the pot (I’m assuming 10 minutes pasta), put a bit of olive oil in a frying pan and add the asparagus (on a nine-scale stove, I use 6). keep tossing it gently for 5 minutes.
- season to taste with sea salt & freshly ground black pepper, add a dash of lemon juice and/or white wine.
- add thinly sliced garlic (I use three cloves b/c I believe in the blessed power of three). keep gently stirring for another 4 minutes.
- for the last minute, add the roasted pine nuts.
Serve in a decorative heap on top of the pasta sprinkled generously with freshly grated parmesan cheese.
(If you want it even fancier, you can fry up some salmon or king prawns in a separate pan.)
