After posting my recipe for Tarragon Pesto, I wanted to show you how to make one of the simplest dishes with it: Pasta with Tarragon Pesto! It is a perfect dish for the arrival of Spring.
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 10 minutesmins
Course Main course
Cuisine French, Mediterranean
Servings 4
Calories 707kcal
Ingredients
For the pasta
400gof pasta
40gpine nuts
Parmesan cheese
extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Pepper
For the tarragon pesto
1bunch of tarragon
2garlic clovespeeled
1/2lemon juice
2tablespoonsof toasted pine nuts
25gparmesan
75mlolive oil
Salt and pepper
Instructions
Cook the pasta in boiling water as directed on the package. Reserve 10 cl of pasta water taken at the end of cooking.
Remove the leaves from the tarragon stems. Place them in a blender with the peeled garlic cloves, the juice of half a lemon, toasted pine nuts, Parmesan and olive oil. Season with a little salt and pepper. Mix until a homogeneous paste is obtained.
Toast the pine nuts in a pan without adding any oil or fat.
Drain the pasta, mix them with the pesto, adding more or less pesto according to your taste. Add the pasta water to allow the pesto to stick better to the pasta. Mix well.
Pour into the plates, add a few toasted pine nuts and grated Parmesan. Add a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, a little salt and pepper.
Notes
You can add some cherry tomatoes sautéed for 2 minutes in the pan with a little olive oil after having browned your pine nuts.