I love pesto and when my basil is prolific I make it often in the summer.
It wasn’t prolific this year. (Nothing is prolific this year.)
This year, I bought both pesto and pesto rosso. I like them equally.
I usually use pesto with spaghetti or linguini, and serve it warm.
For this recipe I wanted it to be good the next day on a picnic.
I wanted it creamy….
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The creaminess of the dressing makes this a great do-ahead dish for a picnic.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup (4oz, 120gr) bite-size pasta
- 4 tbs pesto
- 2 tbs mayonnaise
- 2 tbs Greek or plain yogurt
- handful of fresh basil leaves
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package instructions.
- When done, drain and rinse lightly with cold water.
- Put pesto, mayonnaise and yogurt in a large salad bowl and stir to combine.
- Add pasta stir well and serve or chill for later.
Notes
Adding Greek or plain yogurt to the dressing makes more dressing while keeping the ‘mayo’ flavor. A calorie cheat! You could substitute sour cream for the yogurt or use all mayo.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
- Calories: 463
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 402.1 mg
- Fat: 25.1 g
- Saturated Fat: 4.5 g
- Trans Fat: 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 47.2 g
- Fiber: 2.5 g
- Protein: 11.2 g
- Cholesterol: 8.1 mg
Keywords: pasta, pesto, picnics
More pasta sides? Lemon Orzo with Avocado or Pasta with Mushrooms & Zucchini
Europe is in the middle of the worst drought in….
I’m not going to link to any of the many articles on this info – Google it your own-self. There are a lot of news reports and, I’m sure some of them would be behind paywalls, but it’s worth having a look.
~The Danube river has gotten so low that dozens of German warships from WWII have re-surfaced near the Serbian border – complete with unexploded ammunition.
~The Loire river is the longest river in France – and it’s now possible to cross it on foot. The water is ankle deep in places.
~The Rhine river is one of the principle shipping routes in Europe and it’s now at record lows, threatening shipments of grains oil, minerals, and coal.
~A 1000LB (450kilo) WWII bomb emerged in the River Po, in Italy. Locals were evacuated while the army carried out a controlled explosion.
I’ll link to this one:
~Spain’s ‘Stonehenge’ , dating back to 5000 BC. has emerged as the water in the reservoir receded to 28%. Archaeologists are happy but the local population, esp. farmers, are not.
This is a very depressing rabbit-hole to fall down…..
Do you have a recipe for pesto without nuts? There’s one pesto I can get here that doesn’t have nuts, but I’d like to try maybe making my own if I can find a good one that doesn’t contain nuts. The one I can get here that doesn’t have them has a tomato base.
We’ve been getting rain, but Las Vegas hasn’t and Lake Mead has dropped to record low levels. What it’s been exposing is a lot of bodies which, authorities are thinking, are from when Vegas was young and the mob was in charge. Interesting…
I’d just leave them out…. add more parmesan, maybe.
Do you think they’ll finally find Jimmy Hoffa?
LOL! No, they’ll never find him. He’s either in the cornerstone of a building somewhere or they burned him to ashes and spread those across Beverly Hills. They were brazen enough to take him under everyone’s nose, they weren’t going to take a chance he’d ever be found in anyone’s lifetime that was involved. And I can’t imagine transporting him from here to Vegas.
It will remain a mystery – and fodder for speculation.