Name: Creamy Kale Pasta
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1/4 cup pine nuts; 1/4 cup packed parsley; 1/4 cup packed basil; 2 tablespoons capers or pitted olives; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon black pepper; juice and zest of half a lemon; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 8 ounces farfalle; 2 tablespoons butter or vegan butter; 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced; 2 stalks kale, stems removed, leaves chopped into bite-sized pieces; 1/2 cup white wine, reserved cooking water, broth, or any combination; lemon juice, red pepper flakes, and Parmesan to finish (omit Parmesan if vegan)

This Creamy Kale Pasta is fresh, easy, and DELICIOUS. Chewy bowtie pasta, coated in a light, salty, barely-creamy sauce, flecked with red pepper flakes and little bits of tender sautéed garlic kale.

Creamy Kale Pasta

pine nuts

parsley

basil

capers olives

salt

black pepper

juice and zest of half a lemon

olive oil

farfalle

butter butter

garlic,

kale, stems removed, leaves chopped into bite-sized pieces

white wine,

lemon juice, red pepper flakes, and Parmesan to finish (omit Parmesan if vegan)

Make the sauce: Pulse all sauce ingredients together until mostly smooth. (The sauce will be very salty. That&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;ll tone down once it mixes with everything.)

Pulse all sauce ingredients together until mostly smooth. (The sauce will be very salty. That's okay, it'll tone down once it mixes with everything.)

Creamy Kale Pasta Step 1

Prep the pasta: Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and set aside.

Creamy Kale Pasta Step 2

Cook down the kale: While the pasta is cooking, melt the butter over medium heat in a large skillet. Add the garlic; sauté for 1-2 minutes. Add the kale; sauté for 1-2 minutes. Add the wine, water, or broth; let it sizzle out for a minute.

Creamy Kale Pasta Step 3

Finish: Add drained, cooked pasta and sauce. Toss to combine. Season to taste with Parmesan, lemon, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper. Fast, easy, yum.

Add drained, cooked pasta and sauce. Toss to combine. Season to taste with Parmesan, lemon, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper. Fast, easy, yum.

Creamy Kale Pasta Step 4

This is very tasty and was a hit with the household! I substituted sunflower seeds for the pine nuts and it came out great.

This is definitely going on my dinner menu this week!  We need more kale in our diet!

I made this for lunch today and it was absolutely delicious. I definitely recommend adding the red pepper flakes and parmesan cheese.

Made this tonight-OMG so good and easy to make. The flavors are wonderful. I didn’t have white wine, and didn’t want to buy any, so I used pasta water. I also used orecchiette pasta cause I already had some on hand.  Perfect easy recipe!

This was GREAT!  I subbed walnuts for pine nuts. I used dried herbs.   Easy for a lazy person like me to throw together!

Made this tonight, oh wow, was it ever delicious!  Started your Plant Power January and I"m loving the recipes.  Thank you!

I really, really appreciate you offering alternatives in your recipes. Too many recipes are ridged, but with yours I feel comfortable with experimenting and thus I feel some sort of ownership of, "I made this".  I'll try this recipe now but with spinach. Ta.

Made this tonight and it was a hit!! Will be adding to our rotation. Thanks for the recipe!

OMG!! This is so yummy!!I just made this for lunch and wasn’t sure it would be a big hit but my husband and I both loved it! It was so good with just some Parmesan and red pepper flakes to top it off. It would be good with shrimp, too. Thanks for another easy, tasty recipe!

Love this!   I couldn’t find basil in the store so I used cilantro instead.   I also used walnuts instead of pinenuts and it was all so delicious.    Thanks for a wonderful recipe!

This is a delicious recipe!  I am following and enjoying the recipes for vegetarian January and love the format with shopping list, photos and recipe presentation.  The one thing I wish was included was basic nutritional info.  I have to come back to the website to obtain it.

My 22-mo picky eater ate not only the pasta but ALSO THE KALE and said "yum" several times. I can't emphasize enough what a big deal this was. This is officially going into our dinner rotation &lt;3

Made this recipe twice in an row as it was so delicious. Kale is not very popular here in the south of Germany but it should be. Thank you for showing me that kale can taste so yummie.

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Creamy Kale Pasta

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total: 30 minutes

Servings: 3

Author : Lindsay

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