Kale Pesto Pasta
Pesto may be one of the easy and delicious ways to eat your greens. You can make this Kale Pesto Pasta as green as you want, as cheesy as you want and as spicy as you want, with very little extra effort
Ingredients
For the Pasta
- 4 ounces pasta
- salt
- Pecorino Romano cheese garnish
For the 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
Calories: 527kcalCarbohydrates: 46gProtein: 17gFat: 31gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gSodium: 277mgFiber: 4gSugar: 2g