Italian
Pesto Genovese Pasta
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Pesto Genovese Pasta is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
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Add the diced potato and cook 5 minutes, then add the green beans and the linguine and cook until the pasta is al dente.
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Meanwhile blend the basil, pine nuts, parmesan, pecorino, garlic, and olive oil into a smooth pesto and season with salt.
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Reserve a cup of pasta water, then drain the pasta, potatoes, and beans.
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Toss everything with the pesto in a warm bowl, loosening with pasta water until creamy.
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Serve right away.
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Serve it with
A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pesto Genovese Pasta, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pesto Genovese Pasta carries tree nuts, dairy, and gluten. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | Affettati e Formaggio (Cold Cuts and Cheese Plate) |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Cacciatore |
| Gluten | Yes | Butternut Squash Risotto |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 610 kcal
- Protein
- 15 g
- Carbs
- 67 g
- Fat
- 31 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 500 mg
- Saturated fat
- 5 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pesto Genovese Pasta takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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