How to Prepare Jamie Oliver Pesto pasta with Cashew

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This is a dream ten minute plant-based supper, perfect for Sunday nights or after work during the week. It's vegan, full of flavour and just so easy to make. Homemade pesto is the focal point of this simple pasta recipe. Using cashews in place of pine nuts is what gives the vegan-friendly pesto its delicious, creamy texture.

Pesto pasta with Cashew is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Pesto pasta with Cashew is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pesto pasta with cashew using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta with Cashew:

1. Prepare Pasta
2. Prepare chicken breast (skip it if vegetarian)
3. Make ready Garlic cloves chopped
4. Take Few Basil leaves chopped
5. Get Few Cherry tomatoes or one big tomato cut into chunky pieces
6. Get Little Butter and olive oil
7. Make ready For the Pesto
8. Prepare Fresh Italian basil
9. Get cashew (if you have pine nuts use that)
10. Take Salt
11. Make ready Olive oil
12. Prepare Garlic cloves
13. Prepare Crushed Black pepper
14. Take Parmesan cheese or any cheese readily available

The cashews and the avocado in the pesto add the best creaminess, whilst the basil and lemon add an amazing. Most traditional pesto recipes call for Parmesan cheese, but this cashew-based version is both dairy-free and vegan, not to mention really easy to make! For a thicker, spread-like paste (if using on sandwiches, etc), use less oil; for a thinner pesto (to be used on pasta, over tofu or other proteins. This is so simple yet amazingly delicious!!!

Instructions to make Pesto pasta with Cashew:

1. Prepare all the ingredients and boil the pasta as per instruction, keep it al dente, reserve the boiled pasta water for cooking purpose.Cut the chicken breast into strips. Make a paste with the ingredients listed for Pesto. With 2 tbsps of pesto marinate the chicken for half an hour at least.
2. Heat little butter and oil together in a pan, to give an extra flavour..saute the Chopped garlic and little Chopped basil, saute the tomatoes also along with garlic and basil and take it out & add it while doing platting. After taking out the tomatoes add the marinated chicken breast strips and cooked for sometimes- add the pasta water when required.
4. Once the chicken gets cooked add the pesto and then add the Boiled pasta n adjust salt…don't cook too much now. Put the flame off n plate it & garnish with sauteed tomato, fresh basil n more cheese. Bon Appetite!!!

For a thicker, spread-like paste (if using on sandwiches, etc), use less oil; for a thinner pesto (to be used on pasta, over tofu or other proteins. This is so simple yet amazingly delicious!!! Use it on pasta, chicken, fish or spread on crackers or crostini!!! You can use any kind of cashew. Make a pesto pasta, use for pasta salad, spread it on toast, use as a dip and dollop on everything!

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