Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, penne and asparagus pesto. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Penne and Asparagus Pesto is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Penne and Asparagus Pesto is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have penne and asparagus pesto using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:

1. Prepare Penne pasta or spaghetti
2. Get Grape or cherry tomatoes
3. Get olive oil
4. Make ready Pesto
5. Get cheese (queso fresco)
6. Take garlic flavored cracker
7. Make ready Asparagus
8. Take olive oil
9. Take cream cheese
10. Get dried thyme
11. Take rosemary
12. Prepare salt
13. Take pepper

Steps to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:

1. Bring pot of water to boil and add penne pasta. Cook to Al dente, drain and set aside.
2. While noodles are cooking, set oven to bake at 425. Cut bottom ends off of asparagus. Put rinsed asparagus and tomatoes on baking sheet and drizzle olive oil all over to coat.
3. Roast asparagus and tomatoes for 10 minutes depending on thickness of asparagus. As long as the tips are cooked…the rest of the stalk will be used in pesto. Remove from oven and set tomatoes aside.
4. Chop top tips of asparagus about 1" and set aside.
5. Crumble cheese and crackers into blender. Chop up remaining asparagus and drop into blender.
6. Add olive oil, cream cheese, thyme, rosemary, salt & pepper. Mix till a thick paste. May need to stir and foil it in.
7. In large bowl, add penne and half the pesto. Mix. Continue adding more pesto. I still had 1/4 cup left to use for another dish.
8. Serve portion of pasta on plate. Garnish with asparagus tips and tomatoes.
9. Substitute: I didn't have any pine nuts or sliced almonds. So I used crackers instead. It helps in making it a good thick paste.

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