Easiest Way to Make Penne and Asparagus Pesto in 16 Minutes for Family

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, penne and asparagus pesto. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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 recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook penne and asparagus pesto using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:

1. Make ready 1 packages Penne pasta or spaghetti
2. Make ready 1 packages Grape or cherry tomatoes
3. Take 1 olive oil
4. Take Pesto
5. Take 5 oz cheese (queso fresco)
6. Get 10 garlic flavored cracker
7. Get 1 bunch Asparagus
8. Take 1 tbsp olive oil
9. Get 2 tbsp cream cheese
10. Make ready 2 tsp dried thyme
11. Get 2 tsp rosemary
12. Make ready 1 salt
13. Get 1 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. Rinse asparagus spears and snap off and discard their tough ends. Add to the bowl with the pesto and stir to coat them well.

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.

Top with toasted walnuts and serve at once. Literally just finished cooking! this is awesome! I did not use the kalamata olives but i did grill the pepper asparagus and zucchini! yum yum yum I also skipped the lemon partially because i forgot and this was the first time i made pesto. A quick and easy penne pasta recipe with tomatoes, asparagus, onion, and a creamy pesto sauce made with coconut milk. A simple vegetarian meal that's packed full of flavor!

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