Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, basil pesto pasta. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Basil Pesto Pasta is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Basil Pesto Pasta is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook basil pesto pasta using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Basil Pesto Pasta:
- Take 150 gm Spaghetti (uncooked) almost half packet
- Prepare 2-3 Tbsp Feta Cheese shavings
- Prepare Leaves Fresh Basil
- Make ready For Basil Pesto
- Make ready 1 cup Fresh Basil Leaves
- Take 1/4 cup Walnuts
- Make ready 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Take 2-3 Cloves Garlic
- Prepare 2-3 Tbsp Parmessan Cheese
- Get 1/4 Tsp Salt
- Take 1/2 Tsp Black pepper freshly ground
- Get 1 Tbsp Lemon juice
I say that pesto pasta is one of the simplest pastas to make, but I do have a few tips to share - lessons learned from my own mistakes! Toss in a bowl, not the pot you cooked the pasta in - basil doesn't like heat. It enhances the flavor for all dishes like steak, chicken, fish, vegetables, and pasta! After the ingredients are combined and formed into a tube shape, simply slice whatever size portion you need and freeze the rest!
Steps to make Basil Pesto Pasta:
- Boil spaghetti according to packet instrutions till Aldante. Strain and keep aside. Reserve some pasta water.(add warm pasta to pesto) i have use spaghetti yet penni, faralle, fussili can also serve well.
- Wash nicely fresh basil leaves. Put in food processor.add walnuts, garlic, cheese and grind. Add olive oil in between. Process to a fine creamy paste. If it's slight grainy then no issue but no big chunks of walnuts appear.
- Take out pesto in a bowl. Mix salt, black pepper and lemon juice. Taste and adjust the seasoning.add little pasta water in pesto to thin out so it coats spaghetti nicely and makes a glossy pesto.
- Take pesto in a deep bowl. Add warm spaghetti in bowl and toss gently so as spaghetti absorbs most of the pesto and should not breakup.
- Dish out spaghetti Pesto in a platter. Top up with Feta cheese shavings or crumbs and walnuts. Serve warm and enjoy with cookpad
- Pesto can be make with spinach, mint, parsley, beet greens, broccli. Adding lemon juice helps to retain colour of pesto. Do not cook basil pesto, bx basil turns black with heat. Use freshly Aldante spaghetti.it's heat will be ok for basil pesto. Do not reheat the basil pesto as it will turns to dark colour. Use at room temperature.
It enhances the flavor for all dishes like steak, chicken, fish, vegetables, and pasta! After the ingredients are combined and formed into a tube shape, simply slice whatever size portion you need and freeze the rest! Easy-breezy to prepare and bursting with flavor! Put the basil, garlic, and pine nuts in a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped. With the processor running, gradually add the olive oil and process until the pesto is smooth.
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