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How To Make Pesto Pasta Salad

In this simple recipe chef Kate Hughes demonstrates how to make a simple pesto pasta salad. This quick and easy pasta salad uses only six ingredients and is sure to please. Enlarge

How To Make Pesto Pasta Salad

In this simple recipe chef Kate Hughes demonstrates how to make a simple pesto pasta salad. This quick and easy pasta salad uses only six ingredients and is sure to please.

Prep:
10m
Total:
10m
Serves:
2

Ingredients

  • 30 g Parmesan Cheese
  • 30 g Pine Nuts
  • 1 Clove of Garlic
  • Cooked Pasta
  • 5 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 1 Bunch Of Basil
  • Cooked Pasta

Step 1: Prepare Sauce Ingredients

Put a pack of fresh basil into a food processor, including the stalks. Add the pine nuts. Cut away both ends of the clove of garlic, crush the main part with the flat side of the knife, chop into slivers, and add to the food processor. Grate the cheese and add it to the food processor.

Step 2: Blend

Blend everything together, pouring in the olive oil as it mixes. Stop and push the mix down and then restart until the mixture is smooth.

Step 3: Serve

Stir the pesto sauce into the pasta. Divide into two serving bowls and garnish with basil and shavings of Parmesan.