A quick vegan and gluten-free pasta meal that’s ready in half an hour. You can use any easy-cook veg, we just used bits of veg that needed to be used up, and whichever is your favourite pasta.
Ingredients & Method
We used sliced spring onions, thinly sliced broccoli, sliced green beans, peas, mushrooms chopped into chunks, shaved carrot, courgette sticks.
These were all stir-fried in a little coconut oil while the pasta was cooking. We prefer Dove’s Farm Maize and Rice Gluten-Free fusilli, it cooks very quickly.
We lightly toasted some pine kernels while the veg and pasta were cooking – actually, the first time they went from white to black in the time it took to check on the pasta, so keep an eye on them!
Make some lemon tahini dressing by mixing tahini with some lemon juice, water, black pepper and pink Himalayan salt. Tahini is subtle and you don’t want to overwhelm it with lemon juice, just a small squeeze is enough. If you want to enhance the lemon flavour, add some lemon thyme.
When the veg is cooked, mix in the tahini dressing and add to the pasta on a hot plate.
We snipped some chives over it because they came free with our organic veg box and needed using – plus it was too wet to go out and cut some lemon thyme!
Top with a sprinkling of pine kernels, serve with a green salad and more tahini dressing.
Done.
Copyright: Chris McGowan
pearsnotparsnipsdotcom 
That dressing sounds so easy to make but super yummy 🙂 I’ve got the worlds supply of tahini so I’ll have to give it a go! Would you say 1 tbsp tahini, 1/2 a lemon and water + salt/pepper would be okay?
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To be honest Rachel, I don’t really measure, I start off with a little and then taste and add a bit more. I don’t like a lot of lemon ( it makes my tongue sore!) and I prefer the dressing to have a subtle lemon taste rather than overwhelm the tahini. I would go with a small squeeze of lemon and see how you like it. I deliberately didn’t give measurements for the dressing as everyone’s tastes are different, just a guideline.
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Hahaha. I’m the same a lot of the time. Just add stuff until it tastes nice!
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Y’know, this is just the thing for hubby’s lunches at work! He has been complaining over lack of choice and often opts for relatively unhealthy (digestive issue) things because he is so hungry, and he is getting a bit fed up with bread stuff. Can’t wait to give him this tomorrow 😀 Thanks!
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Oh wow, this was such an impromptu, simple meal but it’s receiving the most comments and from people who don’t ususally do so. I hope he likes it and that it helps. Lunches are really difficult when you have digestive probs. 😊
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Great to hear you have such a positive response – I think its because you make everything sound easy. Unlike the regular BBC recipes and suchlike, where you need 100+ obscure ingredients, AND prep time, AND cooking time – gosh I give up just reading it, heh
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I know what you mean! 😄
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This looks delicious!! 😊
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Yay! At last! 😉
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thanks for sharing! This pasta dish looks incredible
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Thank you! And thanks for the support 😊
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