Penne and Asparagus Pesto
Penne and Asparagus Pesto

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A bright and lemony pesto sauce with penne and asparagus. A quick and easy spring meal. This is a slightly deconstructed pesto - instead of adding the pine nuts to the pesto sauce I toasted them and sprinkled them over the pasta.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook penne and asparagus pesto using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
  1. Make ready Penne pasta or spaghetti
  2. Prepare Grape or cherry tomatoes
  3. Take olive oil
  4. Prepare Pesto
  5. Get cheese (queso fresco)
  6. Take garlic flavored cracker
  7. Prepare Asparagus
  8. Prepare olive oil
  9. Prepare cream cheese
  10. Take dried thyme
  11. Get rosemary
  12. Make ready salt
  13. Get pepper

Pour the pasta into two serving bowls, add the potatoes evenly and cover evenly with asparagus pesto. Toss well and dust with a light grating of Parmesan before serving. Add the penne to the ricotta mixture. Fold in the asparagus and half of the Parmesan cheese.

Instructions to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
  1. Bring pot of water to boil and add penne pasta. Cook to Al dente, drain and set aside.
  2. While noodles are cooking, set oven to bake at 425. Cut bottom ends off of asparagus. Put rinsed asparagus and tomatoes on baking sheet and drizzle olive oil all over to coat.
  3. Roast asparagus and tomatoes for 10 minutes depending on thickness of asparagus. As long as the tips are cooked…the rest of the stalk will be used in pesto. Remove from oven and set tomatoes aside.
  4. Chop top tips of asparagus about 1" and set aside.
  5. Crumble cheese and crackers into blender. Chop up remaining asparagus and drop into blender.
  6. Add olive oil, cream cheese, thyme, rosemary, salt & pepper. Mix till a thick paste. May need to stir and foil it in.
  7. In large bowl, add penne and half the pesto. Mix. Continue adding more pesto. I still had 1/4 cup left to use for another dish.
  8. Serve portion of pasta on plate. Garnish with asparagus tips and tomatoes.
  9. Substitute: I didn't have any pine nuts or sliced almonds. So I used crackers instead. It helps in making it a good thick paste.

Season to taste with salt, pepper, and several dashes of nutmeg. Lemony Spaghetti with Peas and Ricotta. A simply dish of penne with asparagus pesto and white beans welcomes in spring. Return the saucepan to medium-low heat. Add the drained pasta, along with the beans and the asparagus pesto.

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