Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a creative dish, penne and asparagus pesto. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A bright and lemony pesto sauce with penne and asparagus. A quick and easy spring meal. This is a slightly deconstructed pesto - instead of adding the pine nuts to the pesto sauce I toasted them and sprinkled them over the pasta.

Penne and Asparagus Pesto is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Penne and Asparagus Pesto is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have penne and asparagus pesto using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:

1. Prepare 1 packages Penne pasta or spaghetti
2. Make ready 1 packages Grape or cherry tomatoes
3. Get 1 olive oil
4. Make ready Pesto
5. Take 5 oz cheese (queso fresco)
6. Take 10 garlic flavored cracker
7. Get 1 bunch Asparagus
8. Take 1 tbsp olive oil
9. Make ready 2 tbsp cream cheese
10. Take 2 tsp dried thyme
11. Prepare 2 tsp rosemary
12. Take 1 salt
13. Get 1 pepper

Asparagus is one of my favorite sides for steak, seafood, and even for pasta. This recipe is for a neat little sauce with it's origins from Liguria Set it aside. Bring a pot of water to a boil and cook the penne pasta according to the directions on the box. Pour the pasta into two serving bowls, add the potatoes evenly and cover evenly with asparagus pesto.

Instructions to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:

1. Bring pot of water to boil and add penne pasta. Cook to Al dente, drain and set aside.
2. While noodles are cooking, set oven to bake at 425. Cut bottom ends off of asparagus. Put rinsed asparagus and tomatoes on baking sheet and drizzle olive oil all over to coat.
3. Roast asparagus and tomatoes for 10 minutes depending on thickness of asparagus. As long as the tips are cooked…the rest of the stalk will be used in pesto. Remove from oven and set tomatoes aside.
4. Chop top tips of asparagus about 1" and set aside.
5. Crumble cheese and crackers into blender. Chop up remaining asparagus and drop into blender.
6. Add olive oil, cream cheese, thyme, rosemary, salt & pepper. Mix till a thick paste. May need to stir and foil it in.
7. In large bowl, add penne and half the pesto. Mix. Continue adding more pesto. I still had 1/4 cup left to use for another dish.
8. Serve portion of pasta on plate. Garnish with asparagus tips and tomatoes.
9. Substitute: I didn't have any pine nuts or sliced almonds. So I used crackers instead. It helps in making it a good thick paste.

Toss well and dust with a light grating of Parmesan before serving. A super easy penne pasta dish made with basil cashew pesto, asparagus and red bell pepper. A great, quick meal for weeknights. Pesto usually has parmesan cheese in it, but try this vegan one and you will not miss the cheese!. I used asparagus and red bell pepper as the vegetable additions.

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