Pasta with Trapani-style pesto: a Sicilian specialty recipe with basil and almonds.

Preparation time: 25 - 30 minutes

Cooking time: 10 minutes

difficulty: low

PASTA WITH TRAPANESE PESTO RECIPE

There seems to be no certainty as to whether the first one was born pesto genovese or Trapani pesto, but that the recipes are an evolution of gastronomic exchanges between the two peoples, navigators. Pasta with Trapani-style pesto, good year-round, is even more popular in summer for its freshness and full flavor.

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PASTA WITH TRAPANESE PESTO

INGREDIENTS (for 4 people)

• 320 grams of pasta (busiate is ideal)
• 2 – 3 nice coppery tomatoes
• 50 grams of almonds with the skin
• 1 small bunch of basil
• 3 – 4 tablespoons of grated cheese (pecorino or Parmesan)
• Extra virgin olive oil
• 1 clove of garlic
• salt

Preparation

• Put to warm up thepasta water and, separately, prepare another small saucepan with water to bring to the boil.
• Wash the tomatoes, plunge them for a couple of minutes in the second pot, drain them, pass them under cold water to be able to handle them safely, and peel them.
• Wash the leaves of basil and dry them.
• Peeled the clove of garlic and chop it up finely in the blender.
• Add the almonds and chop them too, but leave a little of their consistency.

• United the basil leaves and blend.

• Finally paid Place the peeled and chopped tomatoes in the blender and blend again.

• Terminate with the oil, adjusting it to reach the desired consistency.
• Adjust of salt.
• Fate cook the pasta, drain it and season it with the Trapani-style pesto.

The pasta with Trapani-style pesto is ready: delicious hot, delicious lukewarm.

Our recommendations

The original recipe calls for Sicilian tomatoes, blanched almonds and a more generous amount of garlic: it's up to you to choose the version you like best.

A little trick to keep the colors of your ingredients vibrant: put the blender blades in the freezer for at least half an hour before using them. This way, the frozen blades won't brown the vegetables.

Pasta with Trapani-style pesto is a vegetarian dish, which becomes vegan by eliminating the cheese.

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Recipes

Recipe Name

Pasta with Trapani-style pesto

Author

Don't waste

Posted on

2021-08-12

Preparation time

30M

Cooking time

10M

Total time

40M

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