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Braden's Creamy Pesto Pasta

Serves 3
45 minutes
Difficulty Easy
12 Ingredients

A creamy pasta with loads of flavor

Ingredients (serves 3)

PESTO
20 grams Basil
20 grams parmesan cheese
20 grams Pine nuts
1 small clove garlic,crushed
50 grams olive oil
black pepper and salt
PASTA SAUCE
250 Grams pasta
100 grams smoky bacon
125 grams halloumi cheese
100 ml cream

Method

PESTO.......Combine basil,grated parmesan,pine nuts and garlic in a food processor (or magic bullet/ /mortar and pestle ) Mix until roughly chopped
Add the olive oil and mix to a paste .. It's up to you how Chunky or smooth you want it. . Season to taste with pepper and salt
For the pasta ....Shred the bacon and cut the halloumi into smaller bits. Fry the cheese and bacon on a med. heat until lightly colored and crisp.
Lower the temp. and add the cream and pesto . Toss in the cooked pasta and season to taste . ( sundried tomatoes can be added if desired )

Notes

My 11 Year old Grandson taught me this one ! Very easy but so so yummy !

41 Comments
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- - mom160270 said
  - 22 Sep 2024
    12:32 pm
This is making me hungry. Yum.

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- - meedee said
  - 25 Jan 2023
    12:05 pm
Yum….would love to give this a try

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- - cassy26 said
  - 23 Dec 2022
    9:36 am
Oh yum… Off I go to get some pine nuts

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- - mom485125 said
  - 29 Mar 2022
    6:21 pm
the halloumi would add a nice creamy-ness to the dish.

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- - mom103778 said
  - 23 Mar 2020
    10:41 am
Yum, this creamy pesto pasta looks great. I have only recently started eating everything with pesto in it.

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- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 08 Nov 2019
    4:48 pm
I need a good processor

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- - mom19782016 said
  - 30 Oct 2019
    2:14 pm
Yum, this looks like a great midweek dinner!

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- - ella12 said
  - 30 Oct 2019
    12:26 pm
Sounds rather nice, thanks so much.

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- - tessie said
  - 28 Oct 2019
    11:56 am
This sounds so healthy and it will go down a treat in our home

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- - rovermum said
  - 28 Oct 2019
    10:00 am
Ooh, yum. We looove pasta in our home. So I would cheat with pesto in a jar, but love the additional pasta sauce idea. Printing this one out now.

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- - shanika said
  - 26 Oct 2019
    12:30 pm
Pasta always family favourite meal.

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- - rachel1970 said
  - 26 Oct 2019
    9:17 am
How delicious, I’d just leave out the bacon so I could just taste all that yummy pesto-iness. Hmmmmmm

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- - Mummyofone77 said
  - 26 Oct 2019
    6:06 am
Yummy sounds delish thanks for sharing

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- - ashley06 said
  - 26 Oct 2019
    12:14 am
This would definitely be a family favourite.

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- - Blossom said
  - 30 Sep 2019
    9:04 pm
I notice the recipe says smoky bacon. Most of the bacon is smoked. It is difficult to find bacon that isn’t smoked. the only one I have found is English Style bacon

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- - rnash02 said
  - 31 May 2019
    2:01 pm
Yummy!! So simple and easy to make.

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- - mom101628 said
  - 22 Apr 2019
    11:38 pm
Such an easy recipe – thanks for sharing

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- - teegsmrstee said
  - 21 Apr 2019
    8:30 pm
Pesto pasta is delicious yum

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- - mom19782016 said
  - 30 Mar 2019
    12:28 am
Sounds like a great recipe – what a clever 11 year old!

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- - rovermum said
  - 27 Mar 2019
    8:49 am
Ooh, I love the sounds of this. I’ve never used haloumi before but would love to try this recipe.

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