Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Pesto Pasta Caprese Salad

One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured

Pesto Pasta Caprese Salad

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★.

hands-on10m
waitingnone
makes6
each$0.23
kcal169
levelintermediate
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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.

158 g1.5 cups rotini pasta
3 tablespoons pesto, or to taste
14 g1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
2 g0.25 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1 g0.25 teaspoon granulated garlic
0 g0.125 teaspoon ground black pepper
121 g0.5 cup halved grape tomatoes
56 g0.5 cup small (pearlini) fresh mozzarella balls
2 g2 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★
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