This Pesto Pea Pasta is ready in until 30 minutes and it’s a super wonderful and flavorful meal! This 5 ingredients recipe is semi homemade too, so there is not a lot of work to make this meal come to life!
A few weeks ago I was watching The Pioneer Woman and she was making a few easy pasta recipes on her show. She made a Pasta with Pesto and Peas and while it was easy, she made a homemade alfredo type sauce and while it was simple, I thought that for the semihomemade blog we could make it even easier with jarred alfredo sauce to make our basil alfredo!
She also made a homemade basil pesto but in the spirit of the semihomemade blog, we’re using store bought pesto and it’s great.
This came out better than I thought it was going to and I’m in love with the flavor.
Quick Glance At Ingredients:
- alfredo sauce
- basil pesto
- grated parmesan
- frozen peas
- corkscrew pasta
How To Make Alfredo Pesto Pea Pasta:
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Since this is a quick meal, we want to start with getting the water boiling for the pasta.
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Toss in the pasta and start on the sauce.
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Mix and heat the alfredo sauce, pesto and cheese until hot for the sauce.
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Cook those frozen peas, it should only take a few minutes.
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Once the pasta is done, drain and mix the pasta with the sauce and peas
What Other Pastas Can Be Used?
I really like to use any type of spiral pasta for this dish:
- Fusilli
- Gemelli
However, you could also use:
- Fettuccine
- Linguine
What To Serve With Pesto Pea Pasta:
- Copycat Olive Garden Breadstick Recipe
- Garden Salad with this great Ranch Dressing Recipe
Pesto Pea Pasta
This Pesto Pea Pasta is ready in until 30 minutes and it's a super wonderful and flavorful meal! This 5 ingredients recipe is semi homemade too, so there is not a lot of work to make this meal come to life!
Ingredients
- 16 ounces corkscrew pasta
- 16 ounces alfredo sauce
- 1/2 up basil pesto
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 2 cups frozen peas
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
- Add pasta and cook according to package directions, normally about 9 minutes.
- While water is boiling and pasta is cooking, start on the sauce and peas.
- Cook peas until for just a few minutes until hot, either in boiling water in a small sauce pan or in the microwave if you're using a steamtable bag of green peans.
- In another small sauce pan, combine alfredo, pesto and cheese. Whisk to combine and heat until hot.
- Drain Pasta.
- Combine Pasta, Sauce and Peas. Serve Hot.
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