Pasta with pesto and cherry tomatoes, a simple, fragrant and flavorful main course, perfect for the summer, very easy to make, can be prepared in advance and enjoyed cold for a quick lunch at home or at the beach, or taken with you for a lunch break at the office or for a picnic.
Ideal for when you don’t feel like cooking or have little time to spend at the stove, because it is ready in 15-20 minutes.
A main course that will always be a hit!
But now let’s go into the kitchen and I’ll show you how to prepare the Pasta with pesto and cherry tomatoes
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 3
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Summer, Spring
Ingredients
LET’S SEE WHAT WE NEED TO PREPARE
- 8.8 oz pasta (short)
- 5.3 oz cherry tomatoes
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
- to taste salt
- 2 tbsps pine nuts (toasted)
- 30 leaves basil
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 0.7 oz Parmesan cheese
- 1.1 oz pecorino cheese
- 0.35 oz pine nuts
- 1 clove garlic
- to taste salt
Tools
- 1 Pot
- 1 Salad Bowl
- 1 Knife
Steps
Let’s start preparing
Let’s start preparing our dish of pasta with pesto and cherry tomatoes, the first thing to focus on for preparing the pasta is making the pesto herehere for the recipe.
Boil a pot of salted water and, when it boils, cook the pasta.
Drain the pasta al dente and place it in a salad bowl with a drizzle of oil.
Add the pesto prepared earlier, add the cherry tomatoes cut in half and toasted pine nuts.
Mix and serve.
And enjoy your meal!!
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