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Ingredients
number of servings
3
Ingredients
- 1 quantity homemade pesto
- 12 oz pasta of choice
- 2 tsp salt
- 3⁄4 cup pasta cooking water
For serving
- parmesan
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Directions
5 min
1. Step
Bring a large pot of water to the boil with the salt.Add pasta and cook for the length of time per the packet.
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2. Step
Just before draining, scoop out 1 cup of of the pasta cooking water.
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3. Step
Drain pasta in a colander, leave it for a minute.Transfer pasta to a bowl (do not use pasta cooking pot, too hot).
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4. Step
Add pesto and 1/4 cup of pasta water. Toss to coat pasta in pesto, adding more water if required to make pasta silky and saucy, rather than dry and sticky.
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5. Step
Taste, add more salt and pepper if desired.Serve immediately, garnished with fresh parmesan
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