Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pesto pasta and bean salad with garlic bread. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This Pesto is so Versatile, and my favorite way to use it is in my pesto pasta! I prefer a longer pasta for this one, but you can use any kind. This basil pesto recipe uses pine nuts, garlic, Parmesan or Romano cheese, and extra Homemade pesto is one of the best ways to enjoy a bounty of fresh basil. This basil pesto recipe uses Toss with pasta for a quick sauce, dollop over baked potatoes, or spread onto crackers or toasted slices of bread.
PESTO PASTA and BEAN SALAD with GARLIC BREAD is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. PESTO PASTA and BEAN SALAD with GARLIC BREAD is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pesto pasta and bean salad with garlic bread using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make PESTO PASTA and BEAN SALAD with GARLIC BREAD:
- Prepare pasta
- Make ready 400 grams spaghetti
- Make ready 2 small potatoes, peeled & diced
- Prepare 1/2 bunch basil, chopped
- Get 1 avocado, cut into quarters
- Prepare 1 clove garlic, crushed with knife
- Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil + extra (if needed)
- Get salt & pepper
- Get salad
- Make ready 250 grams cherry tomatoes, cut into quarters
- Prepare 1 handful rocket leaves, torn
- Take 1/2 red onion, sliced
- Get 1/4 bunch coriander, chopped
- Prepare 200 grams cannellini beans
- Make ready salad dressing
- Take 1/2 tsp agave syrup
- Take 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Take 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- Get salt & pepper
- Take bread
- Get 1 herb & garlic butter (refer to recipes) sliced into rounds
- Get 1 baguette, cut 5-10cm (vegan bread)
Instead of garlic bread, spread pesto onto crusty bread and toast, or stir pesto into bread dough for wonderfully fragrant dinner rolls. Mix pesto with mayonnaise or use as is on sandwich bread or flatbread. Make a pesto schmear by mixing it with cream cheese and serving with bagels. Pesto is traditionally prepared in a marble mortar with a wooden pestle.
Steps to make PESTO PASTA and BEAN SALAD with GARLIC BREAD:
- Bring a pot of salted water to the boil. Add the potatoes, cook for 5 minutes. Stir, add the spaghetti. Cook for 8 mintues, until tender.
- In a food processor, add the basil, avocado, garlic and olive oil. Blitz until smooth. Add extra oil if to thick. Season.
- Grill on medium. Place a garlic & herb butter round onto each peice of baguette. Grill until butter melts & bread becomes crispy.
- Once cooked, remove spaghetti, drain, return to pot. Pour over the pesto, stir and place in a serving dish.
- Meanwhile, rince the cannellini beans under running water in a strainer. Put in a serving bowl, toss through the rest of the salad ingredients. In a small bowl, add dressing ingredients, mix and season to taste. Gently toss dressing and salad.
- Remove garlic bread from grill. Serve immediately.
- Note: the potatoes are ment to go mushy in with the pasta, it helps the pesto stick to the spaghetti.
Make a pesto schmear by mixing it with cream cheese and serving with bagels. Pesto is traditionally prepared in a marble mortar with a wooden pestle. First, garlic and pine nuts Potatoes and string beans are also traditionally added to the dish, boiled in the same pot in which the pasta has Freshly baked pesto bread. A slightly different version of this sauce exists in Provence. This simple pesto pasta salad is dressed with fresh basil pesto.
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