Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, roasted tomato basil pesto pasta. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have roasted tomato basil pesto pasta using 11 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Roasted Tomato Basil Pesto Pasta:

1. Get 1 cup Walnuts
2. Get Cherry tomatoes cut in half 2 cups
3. Take 1/3 cups Olive oil
4. Take 1/2 Tsp Salt
5. Get Garlic cloves chopped 2no
6. Get 1 tsp Lemon zest
7. Make ready 1/4 tsp Chili flakes
8. Make ready 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
9. Prepare 1 Tsp Black pepper powder
10. Make ready 1 pack Spaghetti
11. Prepare Basil leaves to garnish

Instructions to make Roasted Tomato Basil Pesto Pasta:

1. In a pan dry roast the walnuts,until slightly darkened.
2. Keep aside roasted walnuts and allow to cool down.
3. Preheat oven at 180*c for 10 minutes.
4. In a bowl add tomatoes, olive oil and salt, toss well.
5. In a baking tray add tomatoes and cook for 5-7 minutes or until tomatoes start to soften
6. Set aside to slightly cool down.
7. In a blender add garlic,lemon zest, chili flakes and 3tbsp of cheese.
8. Blend for few minutes and add 2/3 cup of walnuts and half of tomatoes.
9. Add olive oil and blend until everything is combined.
10. Add salt and pepper.
11. Transfer pesto to clean bowl and keep aside.
12. Cook spaghetti in a large pan of boiling salted water, according to directions on packet
13. Reserve ½ cup of pasta liquid, and drain the noodles.
14. . Add pesto to the pasta.
15. Add small amount of liquid and toss well until pesto sauce coats pasta.
16. Add basil leaves,remaining tomatoes.
17. While serving top with parmesan, chopped walnuts, basil and black pepper.
18. Note:- - 1.Toast the walnuts to make them crunchy and bring out the nutty oil. - 2.Broil the tomatoes to enhance the sweetness and deepen the natural flavors. - 3.Puree the ingredients into a pesto to create a luscious

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