Pesto Pasta is a bright and easy pasta recipe that's unbelievably easy to make flavorful and juicy with homemade pesto, your favorite pasta, and a couple other simple ingredients.
Add basil, pine nuts, cheese, garlic, and salt to the blender and pour remaining olive oil over the top.
Pulse several times to begin to blend. Scrape sides of the blender and pulse a few more times. You may need to scrape the sides again and pulse a few more times until all ingredients are well blended.
Pesto Pasta:
Cook pasta according to the box instructions and before draining off water, set aside about a cup of cooking water. (Some cooking water will go into pasta and set aside extra just in case you will need to reheat the pasta leftover's later.)
Toss pasta with pesto and about 1/2-2/3 cup of cooking water.
Plate pasta and top it off with some Parmesan cheese.