Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
The most commonly used pasta for pistachio pesto is spaghetti, although I used scialatielli which is another popular choice in Southern Italy. You can also use spaghetti all chitarra. Whichever pasta you choose, you are bound to love this simple but delicious Sicilian pasta with pistachio pesto.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto:
- Make ready 500 g spaghetti
- Get 50 g fresh basil
- Take Clove garlic
- Take Tablespoon chopped, peeled, unsalted pistachio nuts
- Get Tablespoon chopped, peeled, unsalted walnuts
- Prepare Teaspoon Parmesan
- Get Teaspoon Pecorino
- Get Olive oil
- Prepare to taste Salt
With motor running on low, add olive oil in slow stream until pesto is. Pistachio Pesto Pasta with shredded zucchini makes a great dinner, to-go picnic staple or the perfect packed lunch. Take it from me, adding pistachios to a pesto sauce rocks an everyday pasta dish like no other ingredient. With some fresh zucchini and bright pop of lemon and arugula you'll want to make this at least once a week.
Instructions to make Spaghetti with walnut and pistachio pesto:
- Bring pot of salted water to the boil and cook pasta according to instructions. Wash and dry basil. Add to food processor. Add garlic, nuts and oil. Whizz up
- Add cheese and more oil and keep whizzing up until you get a smooth paste, adding more oil as needed
- Drain pasta al dente, saving a cup of pasta cooking water. Add pesto and cooking water. Mix well and serve with chopped nuts on top 😍
The starch and salt in the pasta water adds flavour and will help loosen the pistachio pesto, especially if it is coming out of the fridge. Then, just simply mix with the piping hot cooked pasta of choice. Pesto is a staple in our house, we make it all the time and always have some tucked away in our freezer. My spinach basil pesto is a family favorite, but I recently made spinach pistachio pesto and it is the perfect pesto for spring. I served the pesto with pasta and it was the best quick and easy weeknight meal.
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