Pesto Pasta Salad

Name: Pesto Pasta Salad
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters uncooked fusili pasta (use rice pasta for wheat-free version); 237 milliliters fresh basil pesto; 2 Tbsps chopped green olives, or olive tapenade; 79 milliliters pine nuts; 237 milliliters frozen peas, defrosted (or fresh if you can get them); 340 grams cherry tomatoes, halved; 1 leave Several fresh basil , coarsely chopped; 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 serving Salt and pepper

Pesto Pasta Salad takes approximately 25 minutes from beginning to end. One serving contains 409 calories, 10g of protein, and 24g of fat. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. It works well as a reasonably priced hor d'oeuvre. A mixture of fusili pasta, cherry tomatoes, several basil leaves, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet.

Instructions

Cook the pasta: Cook pasta according to instructions on the package. Make sure the water is salted (one and a half teaspoons per quart).

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Pasta

Water

Remove pasta from heat and strain when pasta is cooked, but still firm (al dente).

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Pasta

Toast pine nuts: While the pasta is cooking, toast the pine nuts in a small pan over medium-high heat. Keep an eye on them because pine nuts can go from lovely and toasty to acrid and burnt in seconds.

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Pine Nuts

Pasta

Toast

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Frying Pan

When most of the nuts have a blush of golden brown on them, move them to a cool bowl to rest. They will burn if you leave them in the pan.

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Nuts

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Frying Pan

Mix pasta with pesto, pine nuts, olives, tomatoes, basil, olive oil: Put pasta in a big bowl.

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Olive Oil

Pine Nuts

Tomato

Olives

Basil

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Pesto

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Mix in fresh basil pesto, green olives, and pine nuts. Gently mix in cherry tomatoes, peas, fresh basil leaves and olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste.

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Fresh Basil