Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · Pesto Pasta 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. 10 cooks on www.allrecipes.com rate it 5.0★.
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: nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 340 g | 12 ounces fusilli or other spiral pasta (3 2/3 cups) |
| 484 g | 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved |
| 60 g | 2 cups packed arugula or spinach |
| 184 g | 1 cup homemade pesto or 1 6.5-ounce jar basil pesto |
| 85 g | 1/2 cup fresh pearl mozzarella balls or cubed feta cheese (3 ounces) |
| 28 g | 1/4 cup finely shredded Parmesan cheese (1 ounce) |
| 28 g | 2 tablespoons mayonnaise |
| 23 g | 1 to 2 tablespoons lemon juice |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon salt |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I used a mixture of rainbow rotini and penne because I didn’t have enough of any one pasta. It worked. I also used my homemade pesto from my own homegrown basil. I am thrilled to have this recipe for my pesto. Since I have pesto in the freezer, this recipe com” — a cook, 5★
“Made this tonight for the fam, they all really loved it!! I needed to use the sun-dried tomato pesto in the refrigerator and I got store bought basil pesto, I mixed them together. I chopped up the spinach so it would be easier to eat. It's an awesome summer re” — a cook, 5★