Penne and Asparagus Pesto
Penne and Asparagus Pesto

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, penne and asparagus pesto. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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A bright and lemony pesto sauce with penne and asparagus. A quick and easy spring meal. This is a slightly deconstructed pesto - instead of adding the pine nuts to the pesto sauce I toasted them and sprinkled them over the pasta.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook penne and asparagus pesto using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
  1. Prepare Penne pasta or spaghetti
  2. Make ready Grape or cherry tomatoes
  3. Take olive oil
  4. Take Pesto
  5. Get cheese (queso fresco)
  6. Make ready garlic flavored cracker
  7. Get Asparagus
  8. Prepare olive oil
  9. Take cream cheese
  10. Make ready dried thyme
  11. Make ready rosemary
  12. Get salt
  13. Prepare pepper

Asparagus is one of my favorite sides for steak, seafood, and even for pasta. This recipe is for a neat little sauce with it's origins from Liguria Set it aside. Bring a pot of water to a boil and cook the penne pasta according to the directions on the box. Pour the pasta into two serving bowls, add the potatoes evenly and cover evenly with asparagus pesto.

Instructions to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
  1. Bring pot of water to boil and add penne pasta. Cook to Al dente, drain and set aside.
  2. While noodles are cooking, set oven to bake at 425. Cut bottom ends off of asparagus. Put rinsed asparagus and tomatoes on baking sheet and drizzle olive oil all over to coat.
  3. Roast asparagus and tomatoes for 10 minutes depending on thickness of asparagus. As long as the tips are cooked…the rest of the stalk will be used in pesto. Remove from oven and set tomatoes aside.
  4. Chop top tips of asparagus about 1" and set aside.
  5. Crumble cheese and crackers into blender. Chop up remaining asparagus and drop into blender.
  6. Add olive oil, cream cheese, thyme, rosemary, salt & pepper. Mix till a thick paste. May need to stir and foil it in.
  7. In large bowl, add penne and half the pesto. Mix. Continue adding more pesto. I still had 1/4 cup left to use for another dish.
  8. Serve portion of pasta on plate. Garnish with asparagus tips and tomatoes.
  9. Substitute: I didn't have any pine nuts or sliced almonds. So I used crackers instead. It helps in making it a good thick paste.

Toss well and dust with a light grating of Parmesan before serving. A super easy penne pasta dish made with basil cashew pesto, asparagus and red bell pepper. A great, quick meal for weeknights. Pesto usually has parmesan cheese in it, but try this vegan one and you will not miss the cheese!. I used asparagus and red bell pepper as the vegetable additions.

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