Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Baked Feta Pasta
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 9 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 155.
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Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 454 g | 5 Roma tomatoes (diced into 1” pieces, (1 lb 5 oz, 4 cups) $1.20*) |
| 9 g | 3 garlic cloves (minced, (1 Tbsp) $0.30) |
| 75 g | 1/2 yellow onion (diced, (1/2 cup) $0.35) |
| 6 g | 1 Tbsp fresh parsley (minced, $0.09) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt ($0.01) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp black pepper (ground, $0.01) |
| 0 g | 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes ($0.02) |
| 198 g | 7 oz. block feta ($5.44**) |
| 108 g | 1/2 cup olive oil ($1.50) |
| 227 g | 8 oz. rotini pasta (half a box, (uncooked) $0.53) |
| 30 g | 1 cup fresh spinach (packed, $0.46***) |
| 11 g | 1/2 Tbsp honey ($0.25) |
| 52 g | 1/2 cup reserved pasta water ($0.00) |
| 7 g | 0.25 oz. fresh basil (torn, $0.89) |
Method: 12 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I maybe need to try baking it, but I've made a variation for years. My mom and I were looking for favorites, while increasing our fiber and veggie intake as we cut non-nutritive carbs. Boil whole wheat pasta in chicken broth and Cajun seasoning, take it out,” — a cook, 5★
“I doubled the recipe (always do for meal prep) and the only change I made was using a can of diced tomatoes instead of fresh and I added roasted chicken breast this is an instant favourite!! I’ll be making it again and again I’m sure.” — a cook, 5★