The art of Italian cooking: pasta with pesto sauce

Posted on | January 28, 2010 | Comments Off

Hi, this is the fourteenth post about Italian recipes.
Yesterday we taught you how to prepare pesto sauce.
Today we tell you how to use it.
In Italy we use pesto sauce to toss different pasta shapes. Especially long pasta. We prefer trenette called also linguini or bavette. Perhaps you know them as flat spaghetti. They are 2-4 mm wide and they are the best pasta shape for pesto sauce.
In Italy we haven’t the habit of tossing spaghetti with pesto sauce but  we also use pesto sauce to toss trofie or  lasagna. Recently we have seen  pesto sauce  on the top of pizza even if this is a new recipe  for the Italians too.

Read in this page how to make trenette al pesto (trenette tossed with pesto sauce), the authentic recipe, Genoa-style.

Trenette (flat spaghetti) tossed with pesto sauce

As you can see in the photo we serve pasta only after stirring it with the sauce.

Consult all our entries about Italian pasta recipes in this page.

Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta

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