Pick a cute looking pasta, like vesuvio pasta, a curly, twisted shape. The pesto will adhere to the pasta wherever it can and it will create a pretty picture.
Key Ingredients in This Recipe
You’ll find the complete list of ingredients and exact quantities in the recipe below.
- Pasta
- Kale Pesto: kale, garlic, Pecorino Romano cheese, pine nuts, olive oil, salt & pepper.
- More Pecorino Romano cheese
How to Make Kale Pesto Pasta
Step 1 – Make the pesto, by adding kale, olive oil, garlic, Pecorino Romano cheese, pine nuts and salt & pepper into a food processor. Process as fine or course as you want it to be.
Step 2 – Cook the pasta according to the directions on the packaging. Drain and reserve some of the pasta water.
Step 3 – Return the pasta to the pan, add the pesto and mix. Allow cheese in the pesto to melt and add some pasta water is you like it a little thinner.
Plate the pasta and sprinkle with grated cheese.
Other Vegetable Pasta Recipes to Try
- Fresh Corn Orecchiette
- Pearl Couscous with Beets
- No Guilt Avocado Spinach Pasta
- Trofie Pasta Genovese
Kale Pesto Pasta
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- 4 ounces pasta
- salt
- Pecorino Romano cheese, garnish
Kale Pesto
- 1 cup kale
- 1.5 ounces Pecorino Romano cheese
- 2.5 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons pine nuts
- 1/2 clove garlic
- salt & pepper
Instructions
- Make the pesto, by adding kale, olive oil, garlic, Pecorino Romano cheese, pine nuts and salt & pepper into a food processor. Process as fine or as coarse as you want it to be.
- Cook the pasta in salted water according to the directions on the packaging. Drain and reserve some of the pasta water.
- Return the pasta to the pan, add the pesto and mix. Allow the cheese in the pesto to melt and add some pasta water is you like it a little thinner.
- Plate the pasta and sprinkle with grated cheese.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.