Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Kale Pesto Pasta
One of 66 pesto pasta recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
10 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 66.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 16% | 12% |
| protein add | 32% | 22% |
| aromatics | 1% | 1% |
| vegetables and beans | 0% | 18% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 454 g | 1 lb pasta ($1.49) |
| 4 cups kale, chopped, loosely packed ($0.50) | |
| 73 g | 1/3 cup olive oil, or as needed ($0.82) |
| 1 large lemon (1/4 c juice, 1 Tbsp zest) ($0.75) | |
| 3 g | 1 clove garlic ($0.08) |
| 29 g | 1/4 cup chopped walnuts ($0.57) |
| 33 g | 1/3 cup Parmesan, grated ($0.55) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt, or as needed ($0.03) |
| Freshly cracked pepper to taste ($0.05) | |
| 113 g | 4 oz. mozzarella (optional) ($2.00) |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I make this in my pressure cooker (cooking right now :-) and it is one of my absolute favorite dishes. I adapted it from the recipe on hippressurecooking.com for spinach pesto pasta. I use toasted pine nuts and like to add a little cilantro if I have it. ” — a cook, 5.0★
“This was so good! I substituted the kale for spinach since I wasn't sure if I would like the taste or not and I could hardly tell the difference between it and real basil pesto. I'm definitely going to be making this again, I was so excited to eat this!” — a cook, 5.0★