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Pesto Pasta Salad
A customizable and filling meal.
👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 30 min👤 Ethan Chlebowski📖 cookwell
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●pot
- ●blender
- ●food processor
- ●bowl
- ●mixing bowl
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Start the pasta
2
Bring a pot of water to a boil and add a handful of salt. Add the dried pasta and boil until cooked through, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, get started on the pesto.
Salt, to taste
3
Make the pesto
4
Using a mortar & pestle, food processor, or blender, puree together all of the pesto ingredients. Taste and adjust with salt and pepper. If you need it thinner, you can add extra olive oil. To thicken it slightly, blend in more pine nuts or parmigiano.
Salt, to tasteOlive Oil, 100 gPine nuts, 25 g
5
Drain the pasta & toss with the sauce
6
Once the pasta is cooked, drain & then add to a large mixing bowl. Starting with about half the pesto, toss it with the pasta until the sauce has emulsified with any extra water and is clinging to the noodles. For a really saucy texture, use all of the pesto. For lighter coverage, save the other half of the sauce for another portion of pasta. At this point, you could save the pesto pasta in the fridge for meal prep, and add toppings for when you are ready to eat.
7
Add toppings & serve
8
Dice up any meat or vegetables you want to add in as toppings into bite sized pieces. Warm up a portion or pesto pasta. Toss together with the toppings. Taste and adjust with extra parmigiano, salt, or pepper.
Salt, to taste
Nutrition Facts
calories
1767
fat Content
93 g
protein Content
30 g
carbohydrate Content
189 g
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