Creamy Pasta with Broccoli

INSTRUCTIONS

• 1
  First, take a large pot, pour in a sufficient amount of water for cooking the pasta, add salt, and bring to a boil over high heat. Meanwhile, peel and finely chop the onion, cut the broccoli into florets, and peel and finely chop its stem.
• 2
  Once the water in the pot starts boiling, add the pasta to the pot, cover with a lid, and cook for 14–15 minutes over high heat. About 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add the broccoli florets to the pot with the pasta. After cooking, drain the pasta with broccoli and thoroughly cool under cold water.
• 3
  Now prepare the sauce: Prepare a tall mixing container, place the drained white beans from the can, lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, nutritional yeast, dried onion, vegetable broth, salt, and pepper into it. Peel the garlic, add it to the container with the other ingredients, and blend everything until smooth with a hand blender. Set the finished sauce aside.
• 4
  Now take a large pan and heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in it over medium heat. Once the oil is hot, add the chopped onion and chopped broccoli stem to the pan and sauté together for 2–3 minutes over medium heat. Then add the cooked pasta and broccoli florets to the pan and sauté everything for another 3–4 minutes over medium heat. Finally, add the prepared sauce to the pan, reduce the heat to low, mix everything, and simmer gently for 4–5 minutes.
• 5
  Divide the finished dish into desired portions, sprinkle each portion with pine nuts, and serve.