Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Low-Calorie Pesto With Pasta
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 7 cooks on www.thespruceeats.com rate it 4.1★.
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 (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 340 g | 12 oz. whole wheat spaghetti |
| 3 g | 1 large clove of garlic |
| 100 g | 1 cup fresh basil leaves (washed with stems removed) |
| 7 g | 1 tbsp. pine nuts (preferably toasted) |
| 19 g | 3 tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese |
| 27 g | 2 tbsp. olive oil |
| 2 g | 1/4 tsp. salt (or to taste) |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.thespruceeats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This was a great recipe. A keeper. Results turned out to be more for a hefty serving of 2-3, according the the increments in the original recipe, certainly not 6 people.” — a cook