Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Pesto Pasta Caprese Salad
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
from www.allrecipes.com
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared. 205 cooks on www.allrecipes.com rate it 4.6★.
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.
| 158 g | 1.5 cups rotini pasta |
| 3 tablespoons pesto, or to taste | |
| 14 g | 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil |
| 2 g | 0.25 teaspoon salt, or to taste |
| 1 g | 0.25 teaspoon granulated garlic |
| 0 g | 0.125 teaspoon ground black pepper |
| 121 g | 0.5 cup halved grape tomatoes |
| 56 g | 0.5 cup small (pearlini) fresh mozzarella balls |
| 2 g | 2 leaves fresh basil leaves, finely shredded |
Method: 2 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This pasta salad was OK, but as other reviewers noted, something was just missing. I liked that the ingredient amounts were perfect, but this just didn't hit the spot for us as a pasta salad...hence the 3 star rating. Since I made my own pesto (Pesto by Anderv” — a cook, 3★
“This is amazing! I use large shells as the pasta. I also use a little more evoo than they suggest. I let the pasta cool before I add anything. I ball fresh mozzarella with a melon baller. I also let it all marinate in the fridge together most of the day and ad” — a cook, 5★