Cooking at Home - Bucatini with Avocado Basil Pesto

Cooking at Home - Bucatini with Avocado Basil Pesto or Bucatini con Pesto di basilico Avocado...

Cooking at Home - Bucatini with Avocado Basil Pesto 

Bucatini with Avocado Basil Pesto is a great dish to us for picnics, pot lucks and large family gatherings or when you want to sit down to a nice summer meal. Avocado Basil Pesto pasta is served room temperature, no need to worry about keeping it warm…

We chose to use bucatini pasta because of the way it holds the sauce. You can use any of your favorites.

For those who do not know what bucatini pasta is: it’s a thick spaghetti-like pasta with a hole running through the centre. The name comes from Italian: buco, meaning "hole", while bucato means "pierced".

Enjoy…

Avocado Basil Pesto

Ingredients:

1 to 2 avocado (depending on size)

2 lemons (to taste)

2 cups packed fresh basil leaves

2 cloves garlic

1/4 cup pine nuts

2/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

1/2 cup freshly grated Pecorino cheese

Directions:

Combine the basil, garlic, and pine nuts in a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped.

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - Combine the basil, garlic, and pine nuts in a food processor

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - Combine the basil, garlic, and pine nuts in a food processor

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - Combine the basil, garlic, and pine nuts in a food processor

Add the oil and process until fully incorporated and smooth.

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - add the oil

Using a spoon, scoop out the flesh from the avocados and place in a food processor process until smooth.

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - add avocado

Season with salt and pepper.

Add the juice of fresh lemon (to taste).

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - add the juice of fresh lemon

Mix in cheese and blend until smooth.

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - mix in cheese

Pour the pesto over the pasta and toss together. Add the cheese and pine nuts and toss together until coated, adding the pasta water, as needed, to loosen the sauce.

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - pesto over the pasta and toss together

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto - Add the cheese and pine nuts

Enjoy!

Cooking at Home - Avocado Basil Pesto 

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