Here’s Your Bite’s Sun-Dried Tomato Walnut Pesto Pasta
Here's Your Bite's One-Pan Sun-Dried Tomato Walnut Pesto Pasta is cozy, craveable and packed with bold flavor. Toasted walnuts level up the pesto, while creamy shellbow pasta, sausage and peas make it the ultimate one-pan comfort meal.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
In a dry pan, add in the California walnuts to toast for a couple of minutes.
Once toasted, add walnuts to a food processor or blender along with sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan, grated garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper, red pepper, and olive oil. Blend until smooth and set aside.
In a large dutch oven, brown sausage on all sides and break up with a wooden spoon. Remove from the pan and set aside. Add a touch of butter and saute shallot with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes.
Once soft, add in garlic and cook for another minute before deglazing with white wine, scraping up any brown bits on the bottom of the pan.
Once reduced, pour in chicken broth and season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Bring to a gentle boil then pour in shellbows pasta. Simmer for 10-15 minutes, stirring frequently. Once the pasta is just about done, add in room temperature cream and simmer for a couple minutes to thicken.
Add sun-dried tomato walnut pesto, frozen peas, and cooked sausage and stir to warm through. Throw in another touch of butter and finish with parmesan and lemon zest. Stir and taste for seasonings.
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6 servings
1 1/2 Cups
- Amount per serving
- Calories1048
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 66g85%
- Saturated Fat 24g120%
- Cholesterol 113mg38%
- Sodium 1442mg63%
- Total Carbohydrate 74g27%
- Dietary Fiber 6g22%
- Total Sugars 9g
- Protein 39g
- Calcium 392mg31%
- Iron 4mg23%
- Potassium 1037mg23%
- Vitamin D 1mcg5%
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.