Pasta with pesto sauce

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make pasta with pesto sauce? Prepare your food. Use green basil for pesto. Only the leaves go into the sauce; the stems are too tough for it. Olive oil is best suited, but, if not available, regular vegetable oil will do. Instead of Parmesan, you can use any other hard cheese. Any nuts are also suitable - cashews, walnuts, almonds.

2. STEP 2

   

   First prepare the pesto sauce. How to make sauce? Wash the basil leaves well and dry. Peel the garlic. You can lightly dry the nuts in a frying pan, I didn’t do this. Place the leaves, nuts, garlic and oil in a blender bowl.

3. STEP 3

   

   Using short pulse movements, grind the mixture until crumbly. There is no need to grind it too much; pesto is not a paste-like mass, but a grainy mass. If you have a marble mortar, you can grind the products in it - this is exactly what they do in the classic recipe.

4. STEP 4

   

   Grate the cheese on a fine grater.

5. STEP 5

   

   Add the cheese to the grated mixture and turn on the blender for just a few moments to combine all the ingredients. Now you need to taste the pesto for salt, I added a teaspoon. If you find the sauce salty, do not add it.

6. STEP 6

   

   All that's left is to cook the pasta. Read about how to properly cook pasta at the end of the recipe. Cook them until al dente, “by the tooth”, this is when they remain slightly hard. Drain the finished pasta in a colander and immediately place it in a deep bowl. If there is some water left, it's okay, it will thin the sauce. Add the pesto, stir and only then serve on plates. But you can immediately put the pasta on plates and only then add the sauce.

Comments on the recipe

tania•oxe

13.08.2023

5

Super. The combination of ingredients is perfect. It must be very tasty, I’m saving the recipe in my piggy bank. I usually cook pasta in a creamy sauce, I really like it.

Alya Zhemchuzhinka

13.08.2023

4.5

It turned out to be a wonderful dish! Some of the pine nuts were crushed in a blender, and some were left whole. I added salt. Thank you very much for the recipe!