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Trenette Al Pesto

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Pasta
  2. 1 medium potato salt
  3. Pesto
  4. Water
Contains GlutenEggsTree nuts Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. (Trenette noodles with pesto sauce) pesto (see p.
  2. 130) 1 medium potato salt 100z trenette noodles Prepare the pesto sauce in advance.
  3. Peel and dice the potato and cook for 5min in a large saucepan of salted water.
  4. Add the trenette.
  5. (Trenette are long and flattened noodles;
  6. the Genoese variety are darker and take longer to cook.) Drain the pasta when al dente, reserving a little of the cooking water.
  7. Transfer to a warm serving dish and mix with the pesto sauce diluted in a little of the reserved cooking water.
  8. Serve hot.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Large pot
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Colander