Spaghetti with pesto

Serves 2 (in parentheses replacement options):

1 medium or 2 small courgettes (zucchini or radishes, daikon)
A few tomatoes and colorful peppers (guided by the eye, enough for about 1/4). Try to find a yellow or orange - the colors are brighter, the more the sun in your plate, in the winter it is very useful for this solar energy in color :)


Sauce:
~ 1/2 cup walnuts (almonds, pine, hazelnut, Brazil, or a mixture is also good)
~ 1 bunch basil (Cilantro. You can add the parsley, dill, cilantro or basil but desirable for spices!)
~ 1-2 cloves of garlic
~ 2 tablespoons of olive oil (walnut oil, sesame oil, etc. Not linseed and sunflower are not cheap - otherwise the taste will be an amateur)
~ 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and lime better
~ Water - about 1, 2 cups, prepare, but will still add to the eye :)
~ Salt, freshly ground pepper, oregano, or a mixture of dried herbs (olive, Italian or to your taste)

The easiest way to make the sauce - throw all the ingredients in a processor. But let's take a more refined taste and cook everything separately, the time it will add except that a couple of minutes, and the result is quite different.

Step 1. We throw nuts to combine (harvester is not a blender! With nuts can handle very heavy type blender or Vitamix Blendteka and the like). Grind, but a large grain kernels dozhna survive.

Step 2: We get nuts, laid herbs, oil, spices and lemon juice in a harvester. If bad mix - plensnite some water from our polviny cup
. During mixing several times, stop the processor, clean off the green of the walls, to the best mixed up.
This is what is usually obtained after 2 minutes of mixing - fragrant and delicious mixture of fresh - this is the pesto sauce,

Step 3. Please add this mixture of green nuts. Then there also intervenes gently chopped colorful peppers and tomatoes. What you have now got (pictured below) is itself elegant tasty dish.
But we do not relax and do not be tempted to eat it, unless a spoon!

Step 4: To the sauce, pesto was like a sauce, just add water. It should be enough residue from half cup, but also monitor at eye - the mixture should not stay too thick, the consistency is needed such that the liquid could infiltrate spaghetti
. Tip: this stage carefully check again - whether in a dish sharpness enough, salt, lemon juice or garlic - and then paste it takes zucchini in yourself if you want to taste brighter, add a little spice

. Step 5. To make spaghetti of zucchini, you can use an ordinary float better - grater for Korean carrot, and best - buy here is a knife for Korean carrot. They are now found in many big stores, I bought this in Metro for 200 rubles. I advise you to choose the one where the knives and often strips are thinner.

Clear the zucchini and cut into a pasta. When you get to the seed - will understand whether this part of the suit. Inode it really tight, then keep cutting

Step 6. Mix the pasta with the sauce in a large salad bowl, to feed was not closely :))) Do it gently, with two forks - did not immediately succeed, and do not know if it's better for meals, but on the part of you will look like a real pro, and this is important in Italian cuisine!

The resulting mixture was allowed to soak - for at least 10 minutes! What is the beauty of this dish - you can leave and a couple of hours (to remove holdilnik), they will only taste better

. Now amateur cooks meal spread in a bowl and enjoy the fresh, gentle, delicate and spicy taste of live pasta sauce pesto with colorful vegetables ...

But professionals do not stop and continue to bring a dish now to aesthetic perfection!

For spectacularly decorated dishes, you can use a ring mold for salad (similar to a round jar without a bottom), rekomednuyu diameter of 7-8 cm.

The form is placed on a plate inside the neatly laid spaghetti, slightly tamped, you can put on top of the decoration of peppers and herbs, sprinkled with nuts, poppy seeds, sesame seeds.
But in general it can be easily replaced by a small bannochkoy.

lightly tamped to spaghetti, cover plate, turn over, to a plate on the bottom and gently pulling off the jar up, leaving the spaghetti on a plate, trying to do it as gently as possible without breaking form. Usually it is easy to obtain, at the bottom of the dish in the photo has been done that way :) You will get a neat and bright cylinder pasta that holds its shape well (unless, of course, you do not forget to leave them to soak in the sauce as it should).

A plate can be decorated with drops of balsamic vinegar, very nice happens if complement leaf green, or black seeds with salt. Or, if you save some sauce, it can be diluted with water to a liquid state and pour the bottom of the dish.
Tip: if you find a suitable plastic jar, cut off from her bed, she did not again come in handy when you want to impress guests exquisite views syroedcheskih dishes :)

When you create your first batch of spaghetti, you will realize that the next time you will be able to repeat the dish in less than 10 minutes. This is one of the most delicious and easy treats that can be created before the arrival of guests :) I hope you'll be happy, enjoy your meal and your health! :)