Grammy's Kitchen · Pesto Pasta · This Easy 20-Minute Pasta Gets My Son to Eat
One of 155 pesto pasta recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 155 for brightness among the pesto pasta recipes we compared.
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: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 68 g | 1 heaping cup very small broccoli florets (about 2.4 ounces) |
| 50 g | 1/2 cup fresh basil or parsley leaves |
| 72 g | 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil |
| 38 g | 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese, plus more for serving, or 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast |
| 31 g | 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice |
| 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest | |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic, peeled |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more for the pasta water |
| Freshly ground black pepper, to taste | |
| 227 g | 8 ounces spaghetti or bucatini pasta |
Method: 4 steps, published by www.simplyrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.