Stephen Ratner
Cooking
The kitchen

Pesto pasta.

Pasta with basil pesto.

Pesto pasta, gouache illustration

Reconstructed from a photo - not a tested recipe

Ingredients

Recipe

  1. Boil the pasta in well-salted water; reserve 1 cup of the water.
  2. Off the heat, toss the pasta with the pesto, loosening with the water a splash at a time until it coats every strand.
  3. Finish with parmesan and black pepper.

Drink pairing

A dry Italian white - vermentino.