Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mean green pesto fusilli. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mean Green Pesto Fusilli is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mean Green Pesto Fusilli is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
For the pesto: In a food processor, combine the walnuts, garlic, jalapeno, cheese, salt and pepper. Process until the mixture is smooth. Place half the oil in a large deep-sided non-stick frying pan over medium heat.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mean green pesto fusilli using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mean Green Pesto Fusilli:
- Take 1 lb cooked fusilli or your favorite pasta
- Take 1 3/4 cup Cooked and cubed chicken (i use homemade baked leftovers)
- Take 1 1/4 cup sundried tomatoes
- Make ready 3/4 cup chopped onion
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp garlic, minced finely
- Get 1 1/3 cup cubed fresh mozzarella
- Get grated parmesan cheese
- Take 2 1/3 cup Spinach Kale Pesto sauce or your own favorite pesto
- Prepare olive oil, extra virgin
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Instructions to make Mean Green Pesto Fusilli:
- Set aside a cup of pasta water. Drain pasta but keep warm while you create the sauce.
- Heat some oil in a skillet. Add your onions and cook until they are translucent. Add garlic. Cook until fragrant. Add sundried tomatoes and a splash of pasta water. Cook another minute. Add your pesto and stir.
- Start adding your pasta in small increments to make sure all noodles get covered. Taste and adjust your salt and pepper if needed.
- Add your cooked chicken and heat thoroughly if it was cold. And your fresh mozzarella last. I served the chicken alongside for the first night we had this…for leftovers i cut up the chicken and tossed everything together. Let me tell you the next day leftovers are amazing! You can have it as a pasta salad…We ate it cold!! So good!
- Opt: drizzle extra oil over the top for a fancy finish. Also: Sprinkle the parmesan over everything at the end if you love that extra salty nutty flavor on your pasta!
Scrape pesto back into reserved pot and add pasta and ¾ cup pasta cooking liquid. I spotted a box of fusilli pasta in my pantry and immediately decided to make an Italian dish with green vegetables and a pesto! A bit more about pesto before we move on to the recipe itself. I love the way pestos pack an intense amount of flavor into every spoonful. They typically require a small list of ingredients, tolerate quite a bit of time in the refrigerator and, if needed, often make the jump to freezer without much trouble.
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