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Some recipe inspiration for you this evening, a delicious pesto pasta with a side of sweet potato fries and a refreshing salad. It’s a fairly simple dish as the red pesto is shop brought there isn’t really much to prepare. This is a tasty meal to make after a long day of work.
This is a dish that contains many ingredients for your luteal phase such as sweet potatoes, radish, cucumber, walnuts and sesame seeds. For example, the sweet potato will help your body replenish B vitamins and re-boost dopamine and serotonin level, this is particularly helpful if you experience mood swings.

Recipe: Red pesto pasta with sweet potato fries and salad (Serves 1)
Ingredients
1 sweet potato, peeled and cut into fries
Oil for frying
1/2 portion of pasta
1 tbsp red pesto
1 inch cucumber, sliced
3 radish, sliced
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
3 walnuts, chopped
Method
- Prepare all of the ingredients and set aside.
- Heat some oil in a pan to fry the potatoes.
- Cook the pasta according to the packet instructions and once cooked, drain and set aside.
- Once the oil is hot for 6 minutes in total turning occasionally. Once cooked fully, drain on kitchen paper and set aside.
- Mix the red pesto in with the pasta and place back on the heat for 2 minutes to keep warm.
- Place the pasta, sweet potatoes and salad onto the plate and sprinkle sesame seeds and walnuts over the pasta.
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