{"id":1313,"date":"2025-03-16T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/beetroot-and-feta-pasta\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:25:53","slug":"beetroot-and-feta-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/beetroot-and-feta-pasta\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetroot and feta pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>500g\/1lb 2oz pasta<br \/>\n200g\/7oz feta cheese<br \/>\n20g\/\u00beoz fresh dill, finely chopped<br \/>\n1 tbsp lemon juice (out of a bottle or fresh)<br \/>\nextra olive oil, for drizzling<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the sauce<\/strong><br \/>\n600g\/1lb 5oz cooked beetroot, drained<br \/>\n100ml\/3\u00bdfl oz olive oil<br \/>\n1 tsp fine salt<br \/>\n4 garlic cloves, finely chopped<br \/>\n1 large red chili (with or without seeds)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cook the pasta following the instructions on the packet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile make the sauce. Put the beetroot into a blender and add the olive oil, salt, garlic and chili. Blend to a smooth paste. Put half of the sauce into a small zip-lock freezer bag, seal and freeze \u2013 now you have another batch of the sauce ready for another meal.<\/p>\n<p>Crumble the feta cheese into a bowl, add the chopped dill, then drizzle over the lemon juice and mix.<\/p>\n<p>Once the pasta is cooked to your liking, drain and put back into the pan. Pour in all that beautiful beetroot sauce and mix through. Tip out on to a serving dish and sprinkle over all the feta and dill mixture.<\/p>\n<p>Drizzle with a little extra olive oil for good measure before serving. Drizzle with a little extra olive oil for good measure before serving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/blender_beetroot_pasta_96501\">Original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>500g\/1lb 2oz pasta 200g\/7oz feta cheese 20g\/\u00beoz fresh dill, finely chopped 1 tbsp lemon juice (out of a bottle or fresh) extra olive oil, for drizzling For the sauce 600g\/1lb 5oz cooked beetroot, drained 100ml\/3\u00bdfl oz olive oil 1 tsp fine salt 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 large red chili (with or without seeds)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-course","category-pasta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}