Smokey-sheezy-garlicky pasta to make you faster!
Matt says: “Carb up, because the last ride’s the fast ride! If you want to swim/bike/run fast, then you’d better have the carbs to fuel that machine of yours called the human body, which this recipe provides, plus the tofu gives you the protein you need to repair your muscles. It not only tastes banging, it’s the perfect fuel for training or racing, so get it down you the night before you need it”
SERVES 4 150g broccoli, broken into florets 150g French beans
Handful of frozen peas
500g pasta
400g cashew nuts, soaked overnight 100g silken tofu
2 teaspoons liquid smoke
1 garlic clove
5 tablespoons nutritional yeast 1 tablespoon smoked paprika 1 teaspoon celery salt
Pepper
400ml unsweetened oat milk METHOD
1
Bring a saucepan of water to the boil. Tip in the broccoli fl orets and French beans and cook for 2-3 minutes, dropping in the peas for the final 30 seconds (you want the peas to just defrost and warm through, so they are still bright green and sweet). Drain all the green veg. 2 Cook the pasta in boiling water according to the packet instructions (different pastas take different lengths of time to cook through). Drain. 3
Meanwhile, get a food processor or (ideally) a powerful blender and add the drained cashews, tofu, liquid smoke, garlic, nutritional yeast, smoked paprika and celery salt, then season generously with black pepper. Pulse a few times until broken down. Slowly add the oat milk and keep blending until you get a creamy texture. 4
Mix the smokey cream, pasta and green veg together in a saucepan over a medium heat until piping hot all the way through. Wait for it to go down, then jump on yer bike and pedal up a st eep hill…