Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Chicken Caprese Pasta Salad
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
from www.delish.com
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 1 cooks on www.delish.com rate it 5.0★.
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.
| 1361 g | 4 large beefsteak tomatoes (about 3 lb. total), 3 grated on the large holes of a box grater, 1 coarsely chopped |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic, finely grated |
| 11 g | 1 tbsp. kosher salt, plus more |
| 4 g | 1 tsp. granulated sugar |
| 54 g | 4 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided |
| 454 g | 1 lb. fusilli |
| 680 g | 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/2 lb. total) |
| Freshly ground black pepper | |
| 239 g | 1 c. balsamic vinegar |
| 40 g | 3 tbsp. brown sugar |
| 227 g | 8 oz. mozzarella, torn into bite-size pieces |
| 25 g | 1/4 c. fresh basil leaves, torn |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.delish.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“<p>I am not a pasta salad fan but we were asked to bring a pasta salad to thanksgiving. I made this and we loved it. I have made it a few times since. 5 stars</p>” — a cook, 5★