Red and Green Pesto Pasta
Red and Green Pesto Pasta

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red and green pesto pasta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This red pesto (the third in our Italian flag-hued pestos, after green and white) tastes like a mash-up of your favorite spicy arrabbiata sauce and the savory anchovy-garlic dip bagna cauda. Scrape pesto into a large bowl and add butter, then pasta and ½ cup pasta cooking liquid. Corzetti pasta Liguria with pesto, potatoes and green beans.

Red and Green Pesto Pasta is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red and Green Pesto Pasta is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have red and green pesto pasta using 5 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red and Green Pesto Pasta:
  1. Prepare 100 g Plain Flour (+ extra)
  2. Make ready 1 Medium Egg
  3. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
  4. Get 1 tsp Green Pesto
  5. Prepare 1 tsp Red Pesto

This pesto with green beans is a prime example of taking a classic recipe and adding fresh ingredients that amp up its health quotient, and its flavor! I made this tonight and it was superb! I added some yellow and red cherry tomatoes for color and taste. We loved the taste and crunch of the almonds.

Steps to make Red and Green Pesto Pasta:
  1. In a large bowl, weigh out the flour, add the salt and make a well.
  2. Crack the whole egg in to a cup and mix with a fork.
  3. Dust your hands with some of the flour and then pour the egg in to the well of the flour.
  4. Now bringing in the flour from the edges start to combine with the egg. At this point the dough will still be quite dry… Don't worry!!
  5. Take 2 smaller bowls and put a teaspoon of each pesto in to them.
  6. Divide the dough roughly in to 2 and add each half to the pesto bowls.
  7. Now one at a time - and washing your hands in between! - knead the pesto in to the dough. The dough now will be quite wet!
  8. Add another teaspoon of Plain Flour to each bowl and knead until you have a nice firm pasta dough.
  9. This can now be left in the fridge until required for rolling and cooking. - The dough can be easily rolled using a pasta machine or even just a good old fashioned rolling pin, making sure surfaces are well floured of course!
  10. Roll in to whatever you want, whether it's Tagliatelle, Pappardelle or Lasagne sheets! Cook in boiling salted water for around 2 minutes depending on your preference!

Red Pesto Pasta with Fresh Corn. An Italian dark green sauce for pasta originating in Genoa. It's made from pine nuts blended with fresh basil, parmesan Red pesto is made similarly but with either sun-dried tomatoes, grilled red peppers or pimiento. It's uncooked and can be bought preserved in jars or fresh in tubs. How to make Red and Green Pesto.

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