Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto
Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto

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Get the feel-good factor with this superhealthy spaghetti dish and try a new variation of classic pesto, from BBC Good Food magazine. Cook the spaghetti following pack instructions, then drain reserving a little of the cooking water. Return to the pan and stir in the pesto, raisins and spinach with a splash.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto:
  1. Take 500 g spaghetti
  2. Prepare 50 g fresh basil
  3. Take Clove garlic
  4. Make ready Tablespoon chopped, peeled, unsalted pistachio nuts
  5. Take Tablespoon chopped, peeled, unsalted walnuts
  6. Make ready Teaspoon Parmesan
  7. Prepare Teaspoon Pecorino
  8. Take Olive oil
  9. Prepare to taste Salt

Transfer pasta to bowl with pesto and add a splash of pasta cooking liquid. Toss, adding more cooking liquid as needed, until sauce coats pasta. Pistachio pesto is a traditional recipe in Sicily where it is eaten with pasta or used to make arancini. If you've never tried it, you really should!

Instructions to make Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto:
  1. Bring pot of salted water to the boil and cook pasta according to instructions. Wash and dry basil. Add to food processor. Add garlic, nuts and oil. Whizz up
  2. Add cheese and more oil and keep whizzing up until you get a smooth paste, adding more oil as needed
  3. Drain pasta al dente, saving a cup of pasta cooking water. Add pesto and cooking water. Mix well and serve with chopped nuts on top 😍

The most commonly used pasta for pistachio pesto is spaghetti, although I used scialatielli which is another popular choice in Southern Italy. Spinach walnut pesto is easy to make all year round. Here we've used it with spaghetti squash and shrimp but it can also be used with In the summer I grow basil so at times I have a lot and make traditional pesto but during the winter I either buy it in a jar or I make this spinach and walnut pesto. While the pasta cooks, pulse the pistachios and garlic in a food processor until finely chopped. Sprinkle with chopped pistachios and crushed red pepper, if desired.

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