Simple Way to Prepare Quick Vegan Pesto with Farfalle Pasta

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, vegan pesto with farfalle pasta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vegan Pesto with Farfalle Pasta is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Vegan Pesto with Farfalle Pasta is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegan pesto with farfalle pasta using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Pesto with Farfalle Pasta:

1. Make ready For Farfalle pasta-
2. Make ready 2 cups fresh basil, packed, stems removed, washed and dried
3. Make ready 6-8 grapes or cherry tomatoes cut in half
4. Prepare 2 cloves garlic, minced
5. Make ready 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
6. Prepare 1 tsp. lemon juice, preferably fresh squeezed
7. Get to taste Black pepper and salt

Steps to make Vegan Pesto with Farfalle Pasta:

1. For pesto- In a food processor, pulse the garlic, 2 Tbsp. pine nuts (set aside the rest to be used as a garnish), lemon juice, and basil leaves .
2. While the food processor is running, if possible, carefully and slowly drizzle in the olive oil. The goal here is to create a smooth emulsion. Occasionally, you might have to stop and scrape the sides of the bowl .
3. Season with salt and pepper.
4. If you are not going to use all of the pesto, then you can freeze it for up to 3 months in an airtight container.
5. For Pasta - Boil pasta with some salt, according to the cooking instructions.
6. Save 2 to 3 Tbsp. of water at the time of draining.
7. Toss pesto into the pasta along with the saved water, halved tomatoes and 1 tbsp. pine nuts (optional taste good).
8. Garnish with basil before serving.
9. NOTES - - - Leftover pesto can be frozen. I like to use it as a spread on my toast - If you do not have access to pine nuts, you can always use walnuts or pistachios - Skip the nuts, to make pistou instead.

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