Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, basil pesto pasta. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Basil Pesto Pasta is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Basil Pesto Pasta is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have basil pesto pasta using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Basil Pesto Pasta:
- Prepare 150 gm Spaghetti (uncooked) almost half packet
- Prepare 2-3 Tbsp Feta Cheese shavings
- Get Leaves Fresh Basil
- Get For Basil Pesto
- Take 1 cup Fresh Basil Leaves
- Make ready 1/4 cup Walnuts
- Prepare 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Prepare 2-3 Cloves Garlic
- Get 2-3 Tbsp Parmessan Cheese
- Prepare 1/4 Tsp Salt
- Get 1/2 Tsp Black pepper freshly ground
- Get 1 Tbsp Lemon juice
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.
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