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Pesto Pasta by Chef Kunal Kapur

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Pesto Pasta by Chef Kunal Kapur

Features:
  • Suitable for vegetarian
Cuisine:
  • Serves 2
  • Medium

Directions

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Learn how to make pesto pasta with quick and easy recipe!
Anyone can make pasta if you have an easy recipe that shows how to make pesto pasta with delicious pesto sauce.

Ingredients

For Pesto Sauce

  • Basil Leaves – 2 cups
  • Almonds/Pinenuts/Cashewnuts (toasted) – handful or ⅓rd cup
  • Garlic Cloves – 2 nos
  • Parmesan Cheese Grated – ½ cup
  • Olive Oil – ¾ cup
  • Salt – to taste
  • Pepper powder – to taste

For Pasta

  • Dried Pasta – 2cups
  • Water – for boiling
  • Salt – 1tbsp
  • Butter – 1 tbsp

Extra Shots

Pasta Omelette 
(from leftover pasta or pesto)
  • Eggs – 2-3nos
  • Oil – a dash
  • Salt – to taste
  • Pepper – to taste
  • Leftover pasta – ½ cup
  • Leftover pesto – 1 tbsp

Steps

1
Done

Lightly toast the almonds in the oven and add them to the blender along with garlic and grind them to a powder. Add grated cheese, basil leaves, salt and start grinding.

2
Done

Trickle the olive oil in while it is still grinding and make it into a puree. Remove and pour it in a large bowl.

3
Done

Boil water and add salt. In boiling water add penne. Cook as per instructions on the packet. Remove and strain the pasta. Immediately add the pasta to the sauce, drop the butter, add a dash of pasta water and toss them with a laddle.

4
Done

Serve on to a pasta plate and garnish with basil leaf and grated cheese.

5
Done

Tips & Tricks

Over blending will cause over heating of pesto. This will cause to loose flavour and the pesto to darken. Make sure to touch the outside of the blender jar to make sure it is not hot. If hot then stop for a while and do it again.

6
Done

Never ever cook pesto, always toss freshly boiled, hot pasta into the pesto sauce.

7
Done

Over boiling pasta is easy so try not do that by following the boiling instructions on the packet of dried pasta.

8
Done

Alway add pasta to boiling water and immediately stir it, do not let it sit.

9
Done

The pasta water is useful to lighten up sauce so do not throw the water till your pasta is ready.

Chef Kunal Kapur

Having served the world with his delicious delicacies, Chef Kunal Kapur is revered by every food connoisseur. An all-in-one Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and media personality, Kunal Kapur has helped all of us get a taste of his cooking secrets through his cookbooks.

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