Broccoli and Walnut pasta- What not to Eat

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I have made similar before using kale and nuts but freestyled it.
Looking at the recipe 100 gms pasta is a one person portion. It also needs over half a bag of walnuts and a whole head of broccoli- seems like a lot of food for one person especially with tomatoes.
Anyone know how much it makes? I have a vegan that this recipe would work well for but I wanted to try it. Do I need to buy a second head of broccoli?

Is this a pesto type thing?

100g pasta is a chonky portion, especially with walnuts in it, but you might want some to spare in case they are very hungry. I'd say 80g pasta pp and half a head of broccoli would be ample, and about ten walnut halves chopped up.

I suspect it’s for 2, if you look on the pasta packet it suggests a portion is 50-75g, now yes I can munch through 100g too but it is a big portion

It does serve 2 @123123again

This thread also discusses the recipe

@Freya1542 Thank you!
I would hate to use up my precious walnuts unnecessarily.

“a whole head of broccoli is a lot of food for one person pmsl” here we go with the MN performance under-eating! you can just follow the recipe and save what you cannot possibly eat for your next meal! there you go I’ve fixed it for you 🤷🏽‍♀️

You've taken that quote out of context and cut half of it out?

Why would you do that

OP says, the quantities of pasta, walnuts, head of broccoli seems a lot for one person and guess what, the recipe is for 2 people so she is right?

How about people bang on about the performative overeating posts that are everywhere?

People are just saying what they can or do or dont eat, theres no performance, thats your own projection.

@brightnails i didn’t interpret that as under-eating, rather that it seems too much broccoli for the recipe, rather than too much to eat.

They're expensive arent they, you can use things like almond and cashews if you want to mix it up but I think he chose the walnuts for specific health benefits.

Theres something about orecchiette that goes really nice with broccoli, we do one with broccoli fried in the oil of anchovies, with garlic and red chilli, with some anchovies in the sauce, obviously you wouldnt have that one but the little ears soak it up lovely.

Come on this is MN, you know how it goes here. "Have half an almond and chew it very well"

@123123again @soupyspoon I expect you know this already, but Aldi sell a bag of broken walnuts (so not the halves) and they are very reasonable. They are for baking / cooking.
£1.75 for 200g

Yes Aldi (and lidl actually) are really good value for nuts and seeds and dried fruit.

Given that it's supposed to be healthy eating, I'd expect that to serve at least 2. 100 g pasta on it's own is 350 calories plus even a small amount of walnuts are going to significantly up the calorie count and if its a pesto there's likely to be a decent slug of oil. I know high calorie doesn't equate unhealthy but I'd expect this sort of recipe to have a small amount of pasta, moderate amount of nuts and oil and then be bulked out by the broccoli, so a lot of that, which half a head is around 2 portions of veg.

Its not a weight loss scheme, its for nutrition.

But the portion sizes have to be sensible or else people will gain weight following the recipes.

100 g pasta, plus walnuts, oil and a whole head of broccoli is going to make a very large and calorific meal, however healthy the ingredients.

But to answer the OPs question, the online recipe says 'serves 2'.

Total estimated calories for the full recipe: ≈ 1076 kcal
Breakdown by ingredient
Ingredient
Amount
Calories
Orecchiette pasta
100 g
357 kca
Cherry tomatoes
150 g
27 kcal
Walnuts
80 g
523 kcal
Nutritional yeast (2 tbsp)
~15 g
50 kcal
Broccoli
350 g
119 kcal
Salt & pepper
—
0 kcal
Total
357+27+523+50+119=1076 kcal
If you want, I can also calculate calories per serving or adjust for using parmesan instead of nutritional yeast.

Copilot (because I cba working it out) says 1076.

That is true, not disputing that, I made the same point about one of his 'snacks' on another thread, a pecan cookie, full of goodness of course but 242 cals for one of them. ONE OF THEM!!!

Is there no oil in it? One tablespoon is 120 cals, and I am very liberal with oil

Goodness! All this angst for 100g of pasta. We eat half a 500g packet for 2 servings, so 125g each, but that’s usually with a tomato sauce. If I do pasta and broccoli (I usually add chick peas or butter beans for a more complete meal. Plus a generous grating of cheese) then it does bulk it out so 250g pasta gives us 3 generous portions.

PS. my pasta with walnuts usually contains cream and/or Gorgonzola. 😋

I tend not to worry about calories (everyone in my family is slim), it’s more the quality of what we eat, which is the point of the programme. Not calorie free joyless and flavourless eating.

Which is ironic in terms of Tims recipe because its got no flavour in it. I would be throwing around the oil, herbs, spices, chilli

Walnuts and gorgonzola is a very good combination but I have a horrible feeling he is fairly anti cheese.

I made it and we didn’t like it and ate beans on toast instead .

It wasn’t about under eating. As other people had worked out it just seemed a lot for a one person meal. The recipe I looked at didn’t have servings which was the whole point of me asking.

Anyway I made it and sadly it’s turned out slightly grim. Pasta in a pink paste with a weird taste from the yeast.
I made mine portion with regular pasta and have saved it somewhat with Parmesan cheese and lemon juice. DS will have to jazz his up when he’s back with whatever he likes.

I am a bit disappointed as I went out to buy nice little tomatoes (given it’s the wrong time of year). Neither M&S or Waitrose had any left. Aldi did but as the sauce is disgusting that’s £1.49 wasted really.

Never following a recipe again. I shall cobble my own together as normal next time.

Always be liberal with herbs and spices, garlic etc with something like that. Cheese will save stuff of course.

Yes. Less nuts, more aromatic flavours ( garlic and lemon) and none of that nutritional yeast.