Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Light Lemon Pesto Pasta

One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured

Light Lemon Pesto Pasta

from www.allrecipes.com

It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 67 cooks on www.allrecipes.com rate it 4.4★.

hands-on15m
waitingnone
makes6
each$1.11
kcal465
levelbeginner
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The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — 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, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

454 g1 (16 ounce) package spaghetti
113 g4 ounces Pecorino-Romano cheese, cut into cubes
18 g6 cloves garlic
60 g2 cups loosely packed baby spinach leaves
100 g1 cup firmly packed basil leaves
58 g0.5 cup chopped walnuts
61 g0.25 cup lemon juice
0.25 teaspoon lemon zest
2 g0.25 teaspoon salt
27 g2 tablespoons olive oil

Method: 4 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“My family thought this recipe was fantastic and my mother asked for the recipe. We did use only 4 cloves of garlic as we thought 6 would be excessive. I also added in some pine nuts, as I did not have quite enough walnuts. I blended it all in my Nutribullet , ” — a cook, 5★
“Emergency lunch, and not much to eat. So I pulled out my AllRecipes and went into the garden. This was really good, but I added in a lot more garlic, some black pepper and doubled the recipe on linguini. Not a scrap left over, and I loved the addition of lemon” — a cook, 4★
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