Pesto Pasta

I always used to think that pastas are very hard to make. Then I had this super tasty Pesto pasta in Goa and I decided to nail this Italian recipe. All thanks to my hubby for getting me the right recipe and I realized it is so easy to make this awesome dish.

Time taken: 30 mins

Ingredients:

• Spaghetti pasta
• Mushrooms - 5-6
• Olive oil
• Garlic cloves - 3
• Pesto sauce
• Basil
• Parmesan cheese
• Walnut
• Cashews
• Almonds
• Pepper seeds
• Salt
• Olive oil - 5-6 spoons

Preparation:

• Soak almonds and cashews in water for 2 hours. After 2 hours, drain out the water.
• Take a big cooking pan and boil water.
• Once water starts to boil, add 1 spoon of salt and 1 spoon olive oil.
• Slowly add the pasta into the pan, close it with a lid and cook in high flame for 10 mins.

• Grind all the ingredients mentioned for pesto sauce in a mixer grinder. Make a very fine paste.

• Once the pasta has cooked well, transfer it to a vessel and drain out the hot water and fill normal/ cold water. This will stop the pasta from getting cooked further.

• Keep the cooking pan back to medium flame and add 2 spoons of olive oil.
• Toss the chopped mushrooms and 3 garlic cloves and saute for 3 mins.

• Add the pesto sauce and stir till the pesto sauce turns dark green. This will take 2-3 mins.

• Drain out water from pasta and transfer it to the cooking pan. Mix well, close with a lid and cook for 2-3 mins.

• Pesto pasta is ready now!

You can make pesto sauce and store it in refrigerator so that you can make this quick and yummy pasta anytime.