Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mean green pesto fusilli. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mean Green Pesto Fusilli is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mean Green Pesto Fusilli is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mean green pesto fusilli using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mean Green Pesto Fusilli:
- Make ready 1 lb cooked fusilli or your favorite pasta
- Get 1 3/4 cup Cooked and cubed chicken (i use homemade baked leftovers)
- Take 1 1/4 cup sundried tomatoes
- Take 3/4 cup chopped onion
- Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp garlic, minced finely
- Take 1 1/3 cup cubed fresh mozzarella
- Take grated parmesan cheese
- Take 2 1/3 cup Spinach Kale Pesto sauce or your own favorite pesto
- Get olive oil, extra virgin
Stir in the peas and cook another minute to warm through. Add the cooked pasta to the skillet along with the reserved water. Top the bare pasta with the Parmesan and add the pesto. Return pot to medium heat and add cream and pesto.
Steps 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!
Return pasta to pot; add tomatoes and toss to combine, adding enough of the pasta water to moisten to desired consistency. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve topped with olives, pine nuts and Canadian Parmesan cheese. Spiraly Fusilli grabs all the pesto punch you could ever want in a pasta dish. Add your veggies & fill up on freshness!
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