Pasta ‘risotto’ with broccoli and walnut pesto
This pasta ‘risotto’ broccoli and walnut pesto has some tricks up its sleeve. Cooking your pasta…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 10 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
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Homemade pesto recipes
Have a go at making your own pesto. Our easy homemade pesto recipes include classic basil, wild garlic, broccoli, watercress and red pesto, plus plenty of simple meals to make with them.
Classic pestos: Learn how to make perfect basil pesto (pesto alla genovese) and our best pesto pasta recipe. We’ve got all the popular pesto spins, including watercress and mint versions.
Seasonal variations: Try wild garlic pesto in spring. How about a zingy tomato red pesto in summer, and and earthy sage pesto to serve with squash ravioli in autumn?
Quick dinner ideas: Throw together a quick broccoli pesto gnocchi, 15-minute red pepper pesto pasta or dish up trapenese pesto pasta with salmon.
Pesto and pasta belong together. Browse dozens more quick pasta recipes.
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Courgette ribbons with pesto alla trapanese
This super fresh, crunchy salad is ideal for a speedy lunch or an easy barbecue side…
Gluten-free
🍽 Serves 2 (or 4 as a side)⏱ 20 min hands-on◆ Easy
Sausage, courgette and watercress pesto pasta
Peppery summer watercress is a brilliant partner for silky, soft courgettes in this easy sausage pasta…
Dairy-free
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Easy
Green sauce
Make a generous batch of this aromatic herby green sauce, store it in the freezer and…
Dairy-freeFreezable
🍽 Makes about 300g⏱ 10 min hands-on◆ Easy
Wild garlic pesto lasagne
Make the most of seasonal wild garlic with this springtime wild garlic pesto lasagne. Quick pasta…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 4-6⏱ 20 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
Chicken, bean and orzo soup with walnut pesto
This hearty chicken and bean soup from food writer Debora Robertson is packed with nuggets of…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 25 min. Simmering time 45 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy
Charred purple sprouting broccoli with ‘nduja, kale pesto and crackling crumb
This dish from The Free Company restaurant near Edinburgh makes a cracking starter or side dish.…
Dairy-freeGluten-free
🍽 Charlie Buchanan-Smith⏱ 45 min hands-on◆ Easy
Best pesto pasta
As far removed from any jarred pesto as you can get, this is the pesto pasta…
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 25 min hands-on◆ Easy
Trapanese pesto pasta with salmon
Basil and pine nut pesto, originally from Liguria, tends to hog the quick pasta sauce limelight,…
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 25 min hands-on◆ Easy
Broccoli gnocchi
Use both florets and stalks to make a rich broccoli pesto bolstered by super-savoury anchovies and…
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Easy
Red pepper pesto pasta
Our punchy homemade pesto with hazelnuts and red pepper tastes so much better than pesto from…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 15 min hands-on◆ Easy
Sprout pesto
Sprout pesto is a quick and easy way to add a Christmas hit of flavour to…
🍽 Serves 4-6 (makes enough for 400-500g dried pasta)⏱ 10 min hands-on◆ Easy
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