Spaghetti Christmas Trees
Wow your family and friends this Christmas with these tasty and cute spaghetti Christmas tree sides. A fun project to keep your kids entertained over the holidays.
Ingredients
1/4 cup Fresh Life Pine Nuts- 3/4 red capsicum
- 3/4 green capsicum
- 500g Chantal Organics Arrabbiata Sauce (approx. 3/4 jar)
- 130g Seasons Gourmet Vegan Basil Pesto with Roasted Pine Nuts (approx ½ pottle)
- ⅓ cup cream
- 1 packet (500g) Diamond spaghetti, cooked as per packet instructions (or use your favourite gluten free pasta)
- a handful Fresh Life Silver Platter Sultanas
- grated parmesan cheese, to serve
- Equipment
- Small star cookie cutter
- Le Creuset non-stick frypan
- Le Creuset pots
instructions
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Step 1.
Heat a frying pan to medium-high heat. Drop in the pine nuts, tossing every 20 seconds until golden. Remove from the pan and set aside.
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Step 2.
Place capsicum slices flat onto a chopping board. Use the cookie cutter to cut out star shapes. Set aside.
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Step 3.
In a medium sized pot add the arrabbiata sauce and bring to the boil. Whilst the arrabbiata sauce is heating add the basil pesto and cream into a second pot. Stir and mix well. Also bring to the boil. Once the sauces start to bubble reduce to a simmer on a low heat.
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Step 4.
Add half the cooked spaghetti and half the pine nuts to the arrabbiata sauce and the other half to the pesto. Using tongs, toss spaghetti and pine nuts through the sauce. Remove from the heat.
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Step 5.
On a large platter, carefully lift the spaghetti out of the pot and create Christmas tree shaped piles.
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Step 6.
Decorate by adding a capsicum star to the top of each tree and sultanas as Christmas baubles on the sides.
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