Recipe: Delicious Pasta w/ walnut pesto

Pasta w/ walnut pesto. A traditional winter pesto made from parsley and walnuts instead of basil and pine nuts. Use with pasta or as a spread on bread or toast. All photos and content are copyright protected.

Drain, toss with oil, and set aside. Toss: Toss your noodles with the roasted garlic and veggies. Serve with a scoop of the pesto. You can cook Pasta w/ walnut pesto using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pasta w/ walnut pesto

1. It's 20 grams of pasley.
2. Prepare 20 grams of basil.
3. You need 1 cup of EVOO.
4. It's 15 clove of garlic.
5. It's 50 grams of butter.
6. You need 50 grams of cream.
7. It's 500 grams of speghetti.
8. Prepare 200 grams of toasted walnut.
9. Prepare 100 grams of bacon.
10. Prepare 75 grams of parmesan cheese.

Toss the pasta with the walnut pesto (adding some of the reserved cooking liquid if the pasta seems dry). Add the onion mixture and toss to combine. Serve with a squeeze of lemon juice and additional Parmesan, if desired. This pasta is loaded with fresh basil, walnuts, roasted tomatoes, wilted spinach and arugula.

Pasta w/ walnut pesto step by step

1. Blitz parsley, walnut, basil, EVOO and garlic into a smooth paste..
2. Mix in cream and butter with a spatula.
3. Cut bacon into bits and brown. Add into the sauce..
4. Add salt into boiling water. Cook speghetti until al dente. Reserve some pasta water..
5. Drain pasta immediately and transfer into a big bowl. Mix in sauce along with parmesan. Gradually add in hot pasta water until your liking..

I had an abundance of fresh basil and leftover walnuts which needed to be put to good use. Pesto is typically made with fresh basil and pine-nuts. However nowadays you will see many variations of pesto. Pasta with fresh basil, walnuts, garlic pesto. Super easy to make and very healthy as well.