Pasta with Pea Sauce
Apr 12, 2025 01:52 PM
This pasta with pea sauce is a simple, delicious spring dish that's perfect for an easy weeknight dinner. With a light, yet super creamy pea sauce and fresh peas for texture, this pasta is bursting with flavor!
Why We Love This Recipe
Great use of seasonal produce: This pasta uses some of our favorite spring flavors, like peas, leeks, mint, lemon and dill.
Vegan and gluten free friendly: This dish is easy to make dairy free and can be made gluten free with an easy swap of your favorite gluten free pasta.
Easy weeknight dinner: Perhaps the best part about this recipe is that it comes together in just about 30 minutes, perfect for an easy weeknight meal!
Creamy, flavorful sauce, without cream or butter! The pea pasta sauce is super creamy and rich, but surprisingly light, as we use vegetable broth in place of cream. Lemon juice and zest pack a punch of flavor, and fresh herbs really take things to the next level.
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces fusilli pasta, gluten free if needed (reserve some pasta water for the sauce)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 cup finely chopped leeks
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 12 ounces frozen peas (2 ½ cups if using fresh), divided
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped mint
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped dill
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper to taste
- 1 cup vegetable or chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ¼ cup grated parmesan, plus more for topping
Total Time:
35 minutes
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