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How to make the most delicious Basil Pesto Pasta. It’s tasty, easy, cheap, healthy, fresh, fragrant and full of flavour. This recipe is definitely a must-try. Please enjoy!

Serves – 2

Ingredients –

2 Cloves – Garlic
15g – Parmesan Cheese, Freshly Grated
15g – Pinenuts, Untoasted * See note down below
45g (1 Bunch) – Basil Leaves
3 Tbs – Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 1/2 Tbs – Sea Salt (1/2 Tbs for pesto, 1 Tbs for pasta water)
1/4 tsp – Ground Black Pepper
250g – Spaghetti or Pasta of your choice
Parmesan Cheese and Basil to serve.

Note* – I have used untoasted pinenuts. You can toast these if you prefer. It adds an extra nutty flavour to the pesto. To toast, place the pinenuts on a baking tray and place in a preheated oven set to 180.C or 350.F and toast for 3-4 minutes, until lightly golden. Add to the blender as per usual.

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36 Comments

  1. Sorry but you said 1 tsp of salt and on the recipe 2 tbs plus the parmesan cheese has salt already to much salt 👎

  2. lovely video, thanks for making it short but still very well explained and so useful.❤❤❤❤❤
    Aussie Aussie Aussie 🎉🎉🎉🎉

  3. Hi! Loved this recipe. However, I would like to know how you adjust your measurements if you’d like to have larger pasta servings.

  4. sigh getting ready to go home for the holidays and haven’t bought groceries. All I could find was a jar of pesto and pasta so here we are. Thankfully I have parm and olive oil

  5. Just tried your other pasta recipe with tomato & basil sauce and it was delicious. Gonna give this one a go next time.

  6. I just made this recipe! It was delicious! And I love the couple of tips I learned (pasta water, swirling pasta when serving)! Thank you very much! 👌🏼👏🏼

  7. Thank you so much. I am going to try this with chicken. This is much healthier than some of the other recipes that call for heavy cream. I can't wait to make it. I just need to buy a food processor to blend the ingredients to make the pesto.

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