Yummy Pesto Pasta Green Beans

I love this pesto pasta with green beans. This is a wonderful Italian dish made with gluten-free pasta and fresh green beans. This meal is delicious, very easy to make and healthy too.

Yummy Pesto Pasta Green Beans Recipe

Ingredients:

2 cups green beans, trimmed and halved
2 cups brown rice pasta
1 cup pesto sauce
2 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil

Directions:

Wash, trim and halve your green beans.
Steam the green beans for about 10 minutes.
Remove the top of the steamer with beans in.
Make sure there is enough water in the steamer to cook the pasta.
Add your pasta to the boiling water and cook to desired tenderness.
Then drain the pasta, keeping a 1/2 cup of the pasta water aside.
Return the pasta to the empty pot along with the cooked green beans.
In a mixing bowl, combine 1 cup of basil pesto with a ½ cup of the pasta water and 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.
Pour the sauce mixture over the pasta and green beans, mix together until the pasta is nicely coated with the pesto.
Serve immediately.

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Discover more tasty pesto recipes that you can use with this dish:

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Fresh Peppermint Pesto Is So Tasty on Pasta – I love this vegan peppermint pesto during the hot summer. Try it on raw zucchini pasta or even added to your cooked grains or on top of steamed vegetables.

Arugula Pesto Recipe – Healthy and Dairy Free – This arugula pesto is a favourite of mine and it is great to be able to use walnuts instead of the wonderful pine nuts with are so expensive. Usually, cheese is an ingredient when making a pesto recipe but there is no cheese in this and it still has a cheesy flavour thanks to the Nutritional Yeast used.