Pesto Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes
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Ingredients
- 400 g pasta
- 190 g basil pesto
- 250 g cherry tomatoes
- 40 g parmesan cheese
- 30 g pine nuts
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 702 kcal
- Protein
- 19.3 g
- Carbohydrate
- 75.8 g
- of which sugars
- 5.9 g
- Fat
- 34.8 g
- of which saturates
- 6.3 g
- Fibre
- 5.2 g
- Salt
- 1.37 g
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Method
- 1
Cook the pasta in salted boiling water, reserving a little cooking water before draining.
- 2
Toast the pine nuts in a dry pan until golden; halve the cherry tomatoes.
- 3
Stir the pesto through the warm pasta with a splash of pasta water to loosen.
- 4
Fold in the tomatoes, top with toasted pine nuts and grated parmesan, and serve.

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