HUMMUS PASTA WITH PEAS, ROCKET AND ONION

Serves 4

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300g Brown rice pasta (I use Dove's farm or Waitrose)

Homemade hummus (use recipe below. I end up using about 3/4 of it and saving the rest to have on oat cakes or chopped vegetables the next day)

Large handful of rocket

200g peas

2 red onions

2 fillet steak (optional - I didn't give any steak to my son). 

1 teaspoon of coconut oil

2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (I use Braggs)

Hummus Ingredients

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400g tin of chickpeas

Juice of one lemon

1 tablespoon of tahini

1/2 clove of garlic (you can add a whole clove but I left it quite mild as it was going to be eaten by a 9 month old). 

2 tablespoons of olive oil

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Method

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1. Boil two saucepans of water. 

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2. Add the peas to one pan and the pasta to another. 

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3. Slice red onion and fry in a half of the coconut oil and the apple cider vinegar (once softened, leave to one side). 

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4. Meanwhile, slice the steak if using and fry in a separate pan in a little coconut oil. (One cooked leave to one side) 

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5. While everything is cooking, make up the hummus, simply add all of the hummus ingredients into a food processor and blitz for a few minutes. You may need to stop and stir/ remove from the sides every now and then.

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6. Drain the pasta and peas when they have finished cooking and put both of them back into the pasta saucepan and put back on a low heat. Stir in desired amount of hummus, and allow to heat through for a minute or two. 

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7. Dish up the pasta and then add rocket, cooked onion and steak if using. 

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