{"id":380,"date":"2011-04-16T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T01:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/?p=380"},"modified":"2015-11-24T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:03:09","slug":"homemade-pesto-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/2011\/04\/homemade-pesto-pasta\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Pesto Pasta with Fresh Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My garden&#8217;s been going nuts lately (good thing!), and I found myself needing to prune a whole lot of herbs. Aside from mint, which I made into tea, I had shallots, garlic chives and sweet basil to use up. So I thought&#8230; hmm&#8230; time to try making homemade pesto! This recipe has similarities to another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestrecipes.com.au\/recipe\/Pesto-Pasta-L5640.html\">pesto pasta recipe<\/a> of mine. My hubby chowed all his plate down with compliments to the chef :-) I&#8217;m glad I made enough for leftovers later!<\/p>\n<p>Note that whilst I need to use gluten free pasta, any pasta would be fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Creamy-Pesto-Pasta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-381\" src=\"\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Creamy-Pesto-Pasta-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Homemade Pesto Pasta\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Creamy-Pesto-Pasta-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Creamy-Pesto-Pasta-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Creamy-Pesto-Pasta.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients (Serves 4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the pesto sauce&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup of a mix of silvered almonds &amp; pine nuts<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup of a mixture of green shallots, garlic chives and sweet basil, coarsely chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp Masterfoods Dill tips<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For the pasta and vegetables bit&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 large vine-ripened tomatoes, diced<\/li>\n<li>100g of coarsely chopped shitake mushrooms<\/li>\n<li>300g of uncooked gluten free pasta (I used tri-coloured spirals)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp Masterfoods Season-All<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp of butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boil water in a pot and get the pasta cooking over high heat. Add a little extra virgin olive oil to the pot if pasta is sticking together (thanks hubby for this tip!)<\/li>\n<li>In the meantime, combine all ingredients for the pesto in a food processor. Process until well combined, light green and thick (paste-like in texture).<\/li>\n<li>Drain the pasta and rinse immediately in hot water. Serve onto plates.<\/li>\n<li>Rinse the pot and place the butter &amp; mushrooms inside. Heat until golden brown over low medium heat.<\/li>\n<li>Add pesto, tomatoes, season-all, water and remaining extra virgin olive oil. Simmer over low medium heat for about 3 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Serve the pesto and vegetable mixture over pasta and enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My garden&#8217;s been going nuts lately (good thing!), and I found myself needing to prune a whole lot of herbs. Aside from mint, which I made into tea, I had shallots, garlic chives and sweet basil to use up. So I thought&#8230; hmm&#8230; time to try making homemade pesto! This recipe has similarities to another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,5],"tags":[39,61,58,52,43,14,25,37,29],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mains","category-recipes","category-savouries","tag-boiled","tag-dairy","tag-food-processed","tag-gluten-free","tag-nuts","tag-pan-fried","tag-pasta","tag-quick","tag-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}