The cold pasta with pesto and cherry tomatoes is a flavorful first course, perfect to take to the office. It takes just over 10 minutes to prepare. Perfect when you don’t feel like cooking and crave simple, quick dishes rich in aromas.
Have you already tried the Greek-style cold pasta and the raw-style pasta or the cold pasta with sun-dried tomato pesto.
Perhaps you might be interested in, what to prepare for a summer dinner:
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Spring, Summer
- Energy 643.65 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 64.37 (g) of which sugars 6.71 (g)
- Proteins 21.79 (g)
- Fat 36.33 (g) of which saturated 7.28 (g)of which unsaturated 8.55 (g)
- Fibers 2.94 (g)
- Sodium 1,047.01 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 95 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 11 oz orecchiette
- 7 oz cherry tomatoes
- 3.5 oz cooked ham (diced)
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
- to taste salt
- to taste oregano
- 0.35 oz pine nuts
- 2.5 oz basil
- 1.75 oz Parmesan cheese
- 1 oz pine nuts
- to taste coarse salt
- 2.1 oz extra virgin olive oil
How to Make Cold Pasta
Cook the orecchiette in plenty of salted water, then drain the pasta and season with a drizzle of oil.
Pesto preparation: put the basil in the blender, add the oil, Parmesan cheese, pine nuts, and a pinch of salt.
Blend intermittently for a few seconds; this way, the pesto won’t heat up too much, keeping its bright green color.
Cut the cherry tomatoes in half, then season with salt, oregano, and extra virgin olive oil and mix.
Season the orecchiette with pesto, add the cherry tomatoes and diced cooked ham.
Mix to distribute all the ingredients well and plate: your cold pasta is ready to be served!
Storage of cold pasta with cherry tomatoes
You can store your cold pasta with pesto and cherry tomatoes in the refrigerator for up to two days in an airtight container.
