Pasta with garlic scapes pesto, sugar snap peas, and ricotta from Cook This Now: 120 Easy and Delectable Dishes You Can't Wait to Make (page 166) by Melissa Clark

  • ricotta cheese
  • cavatelli pasta
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  • Serves : 4

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    Can substitute basil for cilantro. See recipe for variation.

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    Can substitute basil for cilantro. See recipe for variation.

  • stockholm28 on June 01, 2014

    Very nice spring dish that made good use of things I bought at the farmer's market. Really liked the cilantro garlic scape pesto.

  • westminstr on March 25, 2013

    Wow, we just loved this dish. A simple pesto is made with cilantro, garlic scapes, parmigiano, toasted pine nuts and olive oil. The pesto is tossed with pasta and thinly sliced sugar snap peas (snow peas in my case) that have been sautéed in butter. The whole thing is topped with a dollop of fresh ricotta. She recommends using cavatelli for the pasta. I used small shells instead, but I would go for the cavatelli if possible. So this cilantro-garlic scape pesto is probably the best pesto I've ever made. It was really, really good. I highly recommend making this dish before garlic scapes go out of season.

  • Breadcrumbs on June 23, 2012

    p. 165 The first time I made the recipe I substituted almonds for the pine nuts since we're a bit nervous about the latter w all the cases of pine mouth being reported. This pesto is almost identical to another I've been making for the past few years and we really enjoyed it on the pasta. Last night I decided to use the garlic scape pesto recipe from The Farm instead of MC's. I also added some shell peas (suggested in What Else?) and, since I had 4 big cremini mushrooms to use up, those went in as well. The main difference between MC's pesto and that in The Farm is that the latter calls for pistachios, which I would never have considered otherwise. In any event the garlic scape pistachio pesto wins out in our view and was absolutely fabulous. We served this pasta as a side w some grilled chops which I'd coated w some of the pesto. I think this pasta would be just fine without the ricotta btw. Photos here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/799537#7419689

  • amraub on June 12, 2012

    Very good. Don't skip on the ricotta. Added prosciutto as suggested.

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