Pesto pasta

Hope you enjoyed the simple pasta in red sauce posted earlier. Here is another dish prepared with macaroni pasta and leftover parsley leafs.

Pesto is a sauce usually prepared with basil leaves. Traditional pesto sauce contains basil leaves, crushed garlic, olive oil, salt and cheese.

Let see how to make pesto sause with parsely and a creamy pesto pasta with it. 

Ingredients

1. Macaroni pasta – 250 gms

For pesto sauce

1. Parsley – ½ cup
2. Garlic – 2-3 cloves
3. Grated cheese – 2 tablespoon
4. Olive oil – 1 tablespoon
5. Pistachios for garnish
6. Salt to taste

Instructions

• Clean and cook pasta in 2-3 cups of water. Drain it in a colander and keep it aside. Take ½ cup of pasta water in a cup, this we will use it.

• Clean parsely in running clean water and keep it aside

• Put garlic cloves into a blender and make a paste of it and the add parsley leaves, cheese, salt and olive oil to it and blend well. Pesto sauce for our past is ready J
• Heat a pan and add cooked pasta into it and immediately add pesto sauce to it stir for 2-3 minutes.

• Add hot pasta water if the pasta is dry. Garnish with crushed pistachios. Pesto pasta is ready to serve.

Note:

This is plan pasta without any spices. I have added chilli flakes while serving to my family

Enjoy making this tasty pesto pasta at your home and let me know your feedback on it.

Happy eating J