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    Pea & spinach pasta

    Green peas and spinach make a bright, easy pasta supper. This plain wheat pasta version is gentle-scored, but not in the lipedema-friendly selection.

    20 minutes2 servings
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    Pea & spinach pasta in a ceramic bowl
    2out of 10110Mostly gentle

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    Ingredients

    Amounts for 2 servings

    • 150 g plain wheat pasta
    • 150 g frozen peas
    • 120 g spinach
    • 1 tbsp olive oil
    • ½ lemon
    • 15 g walnuts

    Let's make it

    1. Boil pasta according to the packet, adding peas for the final 3 minutes.
    2. Reserve a mug of cooking water and drain.
    1. Wilt spinach in olive oil, then add pasta, peas and a splash of the water.
    2. Finish with lemon and chopped walnuts.

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    Why it's gentle in Renya

    Peas, spinach and walnuts offset the refined-flour pasta in Renya. This describes the ingredient score, not a health effect.

    Start at 4, add the ingredient contributions below, then round and keep the result between 1 and 10. Portions here describe one serving.

    Plain wheat pastarefined flour · medium portion+1
    Frozen peaslegumes · medium portion−1
    Spinachvegetables · medium portion−1
    Olive oilolive oil · small portion−0.5
    Lemonfruit · small portion−0.5
    Walnutsnuts/seeds · small portion−0.5
    Start 4 → 2/10Mostly gentle

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