My New Favorite Pasta Dish

I don't usually post recipes, but I have been experimenting a lot lately and want to share with you all some of my favorites. I have been making this pasta dish weekly because it is just so good!!! The raw grape tomatoes on top give the pasta such a fresh and pungent flavor.

What you will need for the PASTA:

1/3 package brown rice linguini

1 cup green beans

1 T olive oil

1 clove garlic

pinch of salt

pinch of pepper

1 cup sliced grape tomatoes

lemon zest

DIRECTIONS:

Place pasta in a pot of salted, boiling water, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, heat olive oil and garlic in a skillet on medium high heat. Add green beans, salt and pepper and saute for 8-10 minutes. When the pasta is "al dente" (firm to the bite), drain and reserve 1/2 cup of the cooking liquid. Add the cooking liquid to the green beans and continue cooking for another 5 minutes, or until tender. The cooking liquid should evaporate from the pan. Combine pasta, green beans, and fresh tomatoes. Then proceed to making the sauce...

What you will need for the SAUCE:

1/2 cup raw walnuts

1/2 cup raw cashews

1 stalk celery, chopped

1 T chopped yellow onion

1 clove garlic

juice of 1/2 lemon

water as needed

DIRECTIONS:

Combine all sauce ingredients in a VitaMix or blender. Blend until smooth adding water as needed. Add the sauce to the pasta dish and garnish with lemon zest. Voile! So good! Let me know what you think.

Love, Bianca