Easy Basil Pesto Pasta Recipe

This Easy Basil Pesto Pasta Recipe is an easy and quick recipe, which tastes delicious, notably when Basil Pesto cooks at home.
Also, it is a particular and aromatic kind of recipe. So, we always cook it ourselves by preparing the basil pesto at home with the basil that we grow in the balcony vases of the house.
You can use ready-made pesto for a quick meal, and it will be just as good.

Furthermore, it is an Italian recipe, especially in the Genoa area, therefore and otherwise known as Genovese pesto.
To summarise, it is a handmade basil pasta sauce, used to prepare in a wood mortar where the garlic crushed with basil, pine seeds, Parmesan cheese, all dissolved together in olive oil.
Also, I’m sure that the traditional preparation way in the mortar gives it a more distinctive taste.

Nowadays, where we want to be as practical and fast as possible, we can use a quality blender for mixing the ingredients and making this delicious pesto sauce.

Also, you can try our Pasta With Zucchini Pesto.

Ingredients

• 400 g  Linguine Pasta

Basil Pesto

• 1 cluster of basil
• 2 tbsp minced Parmesan cheese
• 1 garlic clove
• Olive oil 50 -70 ml
• 1 tbsp of Pine seeds (Pinoli)
• salt
• fresh basil leaves and ground Parmesan cheese for serving pasta

Directions

1. So, to prepare the basil pesto, we will add all the ingredients to the mixer glass and blend them until to make a creamy sauce.
2. Also, you can add a little more olive oil if you see that it is a thick mass.
3. Meanwhile, boil the linguine pasta in boiling salted water and drain them cooked al dente.
4. Also, dilute the pesto sauce a little with the pasta water and add it to the pot with the linguini.
5. Then, mix well for a minute and serve our warm pasta, garnished with basil leaves and minced parmesan cheese on top.

Bon Appetit!

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