Linguine Pesto Recipe
Easy Pasta Recipe to Cook at Home
Real Restaurant Pasta Recipe
This Linguine Pesto Recipe is easy, but delicious. When the restaurant features it on special sheets, we sell out. The restaurant guests love it.
Linguine Pesto Recipe
Favorite Restaurant Recipe
Preparation time: 30 minutes. Serves 4.
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2-4 garlic cloves, minced fine (depends on your taste)
- 1 small onion, peeled and diced
- Salt and coarse black pepper
- 1 small zucchini, cut into match sticks or thin pieces
- 2/3 cup sliced mushrooms
- 1 chopped tomato
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (or dry white wine)
- 1/4 cup toasted pine nuts (optional)
- 1 pound linguine pasta, cooked al dente' (according to the directions on the package)
- Pesto sauce to taste
- 2/3 cup or more (I like more) of fresh grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions:
- Heat a large skillet or saute' pan over medium
heat
- Add the olive oil, onions, mushrooms and salt and
pepper
- Saute' briefly
- Add the tomato pieces and simmer for a few
minutes, then add the zucchini
- Cook for about 5 minutes on medium high heat or
until the moisture is almost gone
- Add the lemon juice or white wine and simmer to reduce
the moisture
- Add the cooked linguine pasta and pesto and heat
thoroughly
- Pour into pasta bowls and garnish with the pine
nuts, if using, and Parmesan cheese
Serve this restaurant pasta dish with garlic bread and a
glass of fine Merlot
Enjoy your healthy, delicious Pasta Recipe and the
company of those you share it with! Enjoy all these real restaurant recipes! - Donna
"If anyone ever tells you that you use too much Parmesan cheese with your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that negativity in your life."
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(Pesto Linguine is delicious even without zucchini and tomatoes!)