If you have just made pesto sauce, then the next thing you need are pesto pasta recipes. The most popular way to use pesto is to mix it with pasta, to create a classic Italian pasta dish, pasta with pesto sauce.
There are tons of different pesto pasta recipes, and I have posted one in the past, Parsley and Basil Pesto Recipe. There is another pesto pasta recipe, Pasta With Pesto And Roasted Carrots.
In this recipe I am using a slightly different pesto recipe. While the classic Italian pesto has pine nuts, I have made pesto sauce without pine nuts this time. This time the pesto sauce has walnuts instead, and it is still a delicious pesto sauce that will go great with pasta or chicken.
So if you are looking to make pesto sauce, but don’t have pine nuts, you can still make a great pesto sauce. Just add all of the ingredients for pesto sauce in a blender or food processor, process them, and you have a great pesto sauce that you can serve with pasta, with chicken, or with other dishes.
Now that you know how to make pesto, the question becomes, what kind of pasta should you use in your pesto pasta recipes? Pesto is great with long cut pasta, such as fettuccini. But it is also great with short cut pasta, such as farfalle, small shells, fusilli, and more. In this recipe I am using gemelli, which goes great with pesto.
Another thing that I am doing in these pesto pasta recipes, is that I am also adding roasted asparagus to this pasta dish. Pasta with pesto has a lot of calories, so it is important to add some vegetables to balance the meal. Asparagus tastes great with pesto and looks really great in this dish too.
To make these pesto pasta recipe, mix pesto with pasta and roasted asparagus to create a tasty dish! And here are Cooking Tools For Making A Pesto Recipe.
Here are more simple pasta recipes: Pasta Salad With Peanut Sauce, Bolognese Sauce Recipe, Pasta With Cheese, Basil and Parsley, Greek Pasta Salad Recipe, Pasta With Italian Sausage and Broccoli.
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Ingredients for Pesto Pasta Recipes With Asparagus
1 Pound of Short Cut Pasta, such as Gemelli
Roasted Asparagus
Walnut Pesto
Parmesan Cheese
How To Make Pesto Pasta Recipes With Asparagus
Cook pasta to al dente, according to package instructions. Drain the pasta.
Make roasted asparagus, using the Roasted Asparagus Recipe.
Make walnut pesto using Walnut Pesto Recipe.
Grate Parmesan cheese.
Make the pesto pasta – in a mixing bowl, combine the pasta, roasted asparagus and pesto. Mix together. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
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