Pantry Basics Orecchiette

<p>We discuss the utter absence of cooking with cactus in our lives (!) and a cookbook which I have loved by Nik Sharma called VEG-TABLE.</p><br><p>To make the recipe, you need</p><br><p>500g Orecchiette (thus named because the tiny scooped pieces look like a baby's ear </p><p>285g frozen peas</p><p>11/2 tsp cumin seeds and 1/2 tsp fennel seeds, lightly crushed in a mortar and pestle</p><p>4 cloves of garlic, grated</p><p>1 tsp red pepper flakes, eg., Aleppo, Maras or Urfa.</p><p>2-3tbs white miso paste (I use 3, Nik Sharma...