Pampered Pesto Penne
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I call this a pampered recipe as it contains loads of cheese, walnuts, cashews and the works. So you have to really forget about calories if you want to pamper yourselves with this pasta.
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Ingredients
- For Pesto Sauce
- 2 bunches of fresh Basil leaves
- 100 gms Mozzarella cheese
- 250 gms Home-made cottage cheese if you don’t prefer processed cheese
- Handful of Cashews 30- 40
- handful Walnut kernel Inside the hard shell of walnut
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- 2 tablespoon Olive oil
- For Pasta
- 1 cup Penne
- 2 tablespoon olive oil for cooking
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Instructions
- Put all the ingredients in the mixer/blender and blend it for 4 mins and make a paste. Say to yourself – “ I am too good and an awesome cookâ€. Blender time is always my self-admiration time
- Boil Penne (about 10 minutes), strain and dry it.
- Heat olive oil in the pan and add the paste cook it for 5 mins! Your Pesto sauce is ready. Add penne and toss well.
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