Grammy's Kitchen ยท Pesto Pasta ยท Kale Pesto Pasta

One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured

Kale Pesto Pasta

from thewoksoflife.com

It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 8 cooks on thewoksoflife.com rate it 4.8โ˜….

hands-on15m
waitingnone
makes6
each$0.81
kcal484
levelbeginner
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The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base โ€” next to the median of all 155.

this recipe typical

Where it stands out

  • #1 of 155 for brightness
  • #1 of 155 for noodle texture
  • #1 of 155 for saltiness
  • #1 of 155 for sauce cling

Adapts cleanly: egg-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

454 g1 pound mezzi rigatoni ((or any other short cut pasta you like))
24 g8 cloves garlic ((peeled, ends trimmed))
29 g1/4 cup pine nuts ((or walnuts))
50 g1/2 cup parmesan cheese ((plus more for topping))
Juice of 1/2 a lemon ((if you'd like it extra lemony, use the whole lemon))
8 g1 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 g1/2 teaspoon black pepper
241 g10 packed cups curly kale ((about 8-9 ounces/225-250 g))
216 g1 cup extra virgin olive oil
Red pepper flakes ((I use aleppo chili flakes; to taste))

Method: 6 steps, published by thewoksoflife.com โ€” open the original โ†— or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

โ€œI just finished making this unorthodox pesto recipe and served it with Italian egg noodles for some extra protein. I have made pesto many times from pure basil, basil and parsley, and garlic scapes and parsley and enjoyed them all. Store bought pesto in a jaโ€ โ€” a cook, 5โ˜…
โ€œIf you think basil is expensive, think about those pine nuts. Off the charts! In 1970 I found a recipe in an Italian cookbook called Winter Pesto. It used spinach, dried basil, pine nuts, garlic, olive oil and cheese. From that I learned that any any dark โ€ โ€” a cook, 5โ˜…
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