Bacon Pasta with Pesto
Switch things up with this tasty but different bacon pasta & pesto. Quick, easy, and full of flavour, it will surely hit the spot.
Equipment
- 1 chopping board
- 1 chopping knife
- 1 pan
- 1 pot
- 1 silicone spoon
- 1 pasta ladle
Ingredients
- 200 gr Fusilloni
- 1 handful spring onions
- 50 gr bacon cubes
- Sundried Tomato Paté Small
- 2 tbsp Philadelphia cheese
- breadcrumbs
- black olives optional
Instructions
- Chop your spring onion. Alternatively, you can use pre-frozen chopped spring onion like I am.
- Add that to a pan, drizzle with Belmorso EVOO, and sauté for a couple of minutes.
- Then add the bacon cubes, mix and leave to sauté.
- Boil the water for your pasta with plenty of salt.
- Take the bacon and onion off the stove.
- Once the water is boiling, add the fusilloni to cook.
- Toast your breadcrumbs.
- Reserve some pasta cooking water before draining the pasta.
- Transfer the pasta back to the same pot, and add the sautéed bacon and spring onions.
- Mix in 3 to 4 tablespoons of sundried tomatoes pesto.
- Serve your bacon pasta pesto, and top it with a dollop of Philadelphia cheese while it's warm. Alternatively, you can mix in the cream cheese before serving the pasta.
- Sprinkle your toasted breadcrumbs, and enjoy.