Have dinner ready in under 10 minutes. This vegetarian dish is full of veggies and full of flavor from the pesto. You can use store-bought pesto or homemade.
In honor of possibly losing power in the near future, here is a quick 5-ingredient recipe for you today.
It is one of the quickest dinner recipes that is still healthy. Woohoo!
I hope you don't lose power, but if you do and you have a gas stove then you can still make dinner.
If you don't lose power, I'd still recommend making this because it's so quick and has so much flavor from the pesto.
You can make your own pesto {try this pesto} or just use store bought if you want...
Pesto Pasta
Have dinner ready in under 10 minutes. This vegetarian dish is full of veggies and full of flavor from the pesto. You can use store-bought pesto or homemade.
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Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 8 oz whole grain pasta
- 1/4 cup pesto
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 yellow bell pepper chopped
- 2 oz Parmesan cheese freshly grated
Instructions
- Boil a pot of water. Once water boils, add pasta and cook 7-9 minutes {or until al dente}.
- Meanwhile, put 1/4 cup pesto in a large bowl.
- Drain pasta and reserve 1/4 cup pasta cooking water. Add the hot cooked pasta to the pesto. Toss the pasta with the pesto. Stir in the tomatoes and bell pepper.
- Serve each plate with 1/2 oz. freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
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