Parsley Pesto Pasta recipe from the scratch with step by step videos and pictures. This vegan Pasta recipe is made of home made parsley pesto sauce and it is very good for dinner and sure kids love it. Looking for dinner recipes for Valentines day??? this is very romantic dinner recipe that you can make it in a jiffy!!! Ya, I know this year valentines day(2016) falls on the weekend(Sunday) you might be super excited What to make. Try this pasta recipe for dinner the whole family would love to have it. Check more valentines day recipe here.
As I said earlier, this is very quick, But make the parsley pesto(sauce) before a day or whenever you get time. Refrigerate it. Whenever you want to make the dinner, just boil the pasta and mix the prepared parsley pesto and serve. Very healthy recipe. Do you know the health benefits of parsley? Let me share, Parsley is very good for weight loss. It fleshes out the unwanted fats from the body. Make the parsley water by adding a tsp of finely chopped parsley into the warm water(1 liter) and have it in the empty stomach it reduces of unwanted fats. You can see the changes in a week if you have it. But don’t take more than one time a day and don’t repeat next week, I mean to have it for a week and then give a break, after 2 weeks again drink it.
Okay !!! coming to today’s recipe parsley pesto pasta, As I said before this is completely vegan. I have used olive oil and not any butter so weight watchers don’t hesitate you can have it.
Let us see how to make the walnut parsley pesto in easy method,
Step:1 Add the walnuts, parsley, garlic, and salt in a food processor or blender and pulse for a few seconds to combine. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then pulse again.( I did it like a smooth paste you can do it little coarse also)
Step:2 Drizzle in the olive oil while the grinding. Now the parsley pesto is ready to serve.
Transfer parsley pesto in an airtight container and then store it the refrigerator. you can have it with the bread, chapati and use as a spread.
A quick recap of Parsley Pesto Sauce Recipe:
- 6-10 walnuts,
- 1 cup chopped parsley or a bunch Parsley,
- 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tsp olive oil
- Add the walnuts, parsley, garlic, and salt in a food processor or blender and pulse for a few seconds to combine. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then pulse again.( I did it like a smooth paste you can do it little coarse also)
- Drizzle in the olive oil while the grinding. Now the parsley pesto is ready to serve.
Instead parsley you can add spinach also.
Let us see how to make Vegan Parsley Pesto Pasta under 30 mins,
1.Boil 2 cups water in a pot and then add 100g pasta, cook till it becomes soft. Add a tsp salt, olive oil while cooking the pasta so that the pasta will not stick to each other and it is tasty also.Cove it with a lid and cook for about 5-8 mins.
2.In between open the lid and check the pasta cooked or not, if not cover the lid again and cooked it.
3.Once the pasta cooked well add in the prepared parsley pesto and mix well. Once done transfer it to a plate and then add the chili flake if you want to make it spicy.
Parsley pasta is ready to serve now, It is very good kids friendly pasta recipe do try this…
A quick recap of Parsley pesto Pasta recipe.
- 100g pasta
- 2 cups water
- 1 tsp olive oil
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp parsley pesto
- Boil 2 cups water in a pot and then add 100g pasta, cook till it becomes soft.
- Add a tsp salt, olive oil while cooking the pasta so that the pasta will not stick to each other and it is tasty also.Cove it with a lid and cook for about 5-8 mins.
- In between open the lid and check the pasta cooked or not, if not cover the lid again and cooked it.
- Once the pasta cooked well add in the prepared parsley pesto and mix well. Once done transfer it to a plate and then add the chili flake if you want to make it spicy.
Here is the Parsley Pesto Pasta Recipe Full Video,
Have a nice day!!!
Pasta looks really delicious .Such a simple recipe.