Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pasta with pesto genovese. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The fifth, pasta with homemade basil pesto, is a craving that arrives like clockwork every July. It usually comes with very specific instructions, a list of everything I think tastes good with, near, or stirred into pesto pasta, things like white beans, grilled and marinated zucchini, halved cherry tomatoes, and bocconcini (or tinier!) mozzarella. Traditionally, pasta with pesto alla Genovese is served with boiled potato cubes and green beans. This particular version is called "avvantaggiata", which means "with something extra".
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pasta with pesto genovese using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta with pesto Genovese:
- Prepare Approx 40-50g of fresh basil
- Take 1 garlic clove
- Get Tablespoon or so of pecorino cheese
- Get Tablespoon or so of Parmesan
- Prepare Small handful of pine nuts
- Make ready Extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare Pasta: 500g (for 4 people)
- Prepare Water and salt
Bring a large pot of water to a boil; cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile place pesto in a large bowl, stir in ½-cup pasta cooking water. Drain pasta and then toss with pesto. Traditionally, this Italian pasta recipe combines pasta and pesto with potatoes and green beans.
Steps to make Pasta with pesto Genovese:
- Wash and dry basil. Add to mini chopper or food processor. Add garlic roughly chopped, glug of oil, whizz it up
- Then add the grated cheese and whizz some more. Add another wee bit of oil.
- Add pine nuts as last and continue whizzing.
- End result :)
- Add to cooked pasta. When you drain it, drain quickly, the dripping water will help mix up the pesto. Mix it all up and enjoy, it's delicious, trust me
Drain pasta and then toss with pesto. Traditionally, this Italian pasta recipe combines pasta and pesto with potatoes and green beans. In our recipe for Spaghetti Genovese we give pesto a nutritional boost by adding spinach and toss it all together with fiber-rich whole-wheat pasta for a warm, comforting weeknight meal. Serve with escarole and radicchio salad. Add the pesto from the processor and enough cooking water to give a runny sauce that coats the strands of pasta as you work it through with a fork or pasta claw.
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