Creamy Vegan Spinach Lemon Orzo
A super delicious weeknight dinner. It's creamy, tasty and super simple to make!
Ingredients
- 150 g orzo (risoni)
- 2 small leeks sliced (I use the whole leek)
- 1 small white onion diced
- 1 garlic clove cut in half
- 5-6 cubed frozen spinach cooked
- 6-7 fresh basil leaves
- 1.5 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast of vg parmesan
- 1/2 cup frozen peas
- 1 tsp miso paste
- 300 ml vegetable stock
Toppings
- olive oil
- walnuts
Instructions
- Heat up some olive oil in a pan on a low/medium heat. Add diced onion and garlic and cook for 5-8 minutes. Add leeks, the dark green part first, then the whiter ones.
- In the meantime in a blender add cooked spinach, basil, nutritional yeast, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and some water if necessary.
- Add peas to the pan, the orzo pasta, enough vegetable stock to cover the orzo and miso paste. Let it cook for 2 minutes less than the package says, stir in the spinach sauce and continue cooking until it’s ready.
- Serve and season with some more olive oil and walnuts.
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