Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, penne and asparagus pesto. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
A bright and lemony pesto sauce with penne and asparagus. A quick and easy spring meal. This is a slightly deconstructed pesto - instead of adding the pine nuts to the pesto sauce I toasted them and sprinkled them over the pasta.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have penne and asparagus pesto using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
- Prepare Penne pasta or spaghetti
- Get Grape or cherry tomatoes
- Make ready olive oil
- Make ready Pesto
- Take cheese (queso fresco)
- Take garlic flavored cracker
- Make ready Asparagus
- Make ready olive oil
- Take cream cheese
- Make ready dried thyme
- Get rosemary
- Get salt
- Take pepper
Rinse asparagus spears and snap off and discard their tough ends. Add to the bowl with the pesto and stir to coat them well. Top with toasted walnuts and serve at once. Pour the pasta into two serving bowls, add the potatoes evenly and cover evenly with asparagus pesto.
Steps to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
- Bring pot of water to boil and add penne pasta. Cook to Al dente, drain and set aside.
- While noodles are cooking, set oven to bake at 425. Cut bottom ends off of asparagus. Put rinsed asparagus and tomatoes on baking sheet and drizzle olive oil all over to coat.
- Roast asparagus and tomatoes for 10 minutes depending on thickness of asparagus. As long as the tips are cooked…the rest of the stalk will be used in pesto. Remove from oven and set tomatoes aside.
- Chop top tips of asparagus about 1" and set aside.
- Crumble cheese and crackers into blender. Chop up remaining asparagus and drop into blender.
- Add olive oil, cream cheese, thyme, rosemary, salt & pepper. Mix till a thick paste. May need to stir and foil it in.
- In large bowl, add penne and half the pesto. Mix. Continue adding more pesto. I still had 1/4 cup left to use for another dish.
- Serve portion of pasta on plate. Garnish with asparagus tips and tomatoes.
- Substitute: I didn't have any pine nuts or sliced almonds. So I used crackers instead. It helps in making it a good thick paste.
Toss well and dust with a light grating of Parmesan before serving. Literally just finished cooking! this is awesome! I did not use the kalamata olives but i did grill the pepper asparagus and zucchini! yum yum yum I also skipped the lemon partially because i forgot and this was the first time i made pesto. A super easy penne pasta dish made with basil cashew pesto, asparagus and red bell pepper. A great, quick meal for weeknights.
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