Basil Pesto Pasta
Fresh pasta tossed in homemade basil pesto and topped with a medley of stir-fried capsicum, leek, eggplant and courgette. Simple, fresh and full of flavour.
By Julia Scott, NZ Registered Dietitian · 23 May 2019
Recipe
Basil Pesto Pasta
- Serves
- 4
Ingredients
Batch
Method
- 1Boil some water in a pot, add the pasta and cook to al dente.
- 2While the pasta is cooking stir fry the veges in a dash of olive oil for around ten minutes, until softened.
- 3Stir the basil pesto through the pasta and plate up, top with veges.
- 4To make the basil pesto blitz the following in a food processor: 2 cups fresh basil leaves, 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, 1/3 cup pine nuts, 3 cloves of garlic minced, 1/4 tsp salt and 1/8 tsp pepper.
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