Pasta with Broccoli Pesto

INSTRUCTIONS

• 1
  First, wash the broccoli and separate it into florets and the stem. Cut the florets into small pieces and peel and dice the stem into smaller cubes.
• 2
  Now pour water into a large pot, salt it, and bring it to a boil over high heat. Then add the spaghetti to the pot, reduce the heat to medium, and cook for 10 minutes.
• 3
  While the spaghetti is cooking, prepare the pesto: Peel the garlic, place it in a blender, and add grated Parmesan, walnuts, olive oil, baby spinach, basil, lemon juice, chopped broccoli stem, salt, pepper, and ½ of the total amount of broccoli florets. Then blend the contents of the blender and season the resulting mixture with salt and pepper as needed.
• 4
  After 10 minutes of cooking the spaghetti, add the remaining broccoli florets to the pot and cook them together with the spaghetti for 1–2 minutes over medium heat.
• 5
  Finally, drain the pasta with broccoli, mix it with the prepared pesto, divide it into 5 plates, and serve.