Spaghetti with Pesto Verde
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
25 min.
Preparation
Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 500 grams Spaghetti
- salt
- 60 grams Pine nuts
- 40 grams Basil
- 2 garlic cloves
- 60 grams grated pecorino romano
- 150 milliliters olive oil
- 50 grams freshly grated Parmesan
- freshly ground peppers
Preparation steps
1.
Cook spaghetti in a pot of plenty of salted water until al dente.
2.
Toast pine nuts in a dry skillet and let cool. Rinse basil, shake dry, pluck off leaves, put some aside for garnish and chop remaining. Peel garlic and chop. Mix garlic in a bowl with basil, pine nuts, pecorino and some oil and salt and puree with an immersion blender. Add olive oil in a thin stream to puree until a thick pesto forms and season with salt.
3.
Drain pasta well. To serve, arrange pasta on plates, put some pesto on each, season with Parmesan and pepper and garnish with basil.
