📋The Classic Pesto With Trofie Green beans and Potatoes

Trofie with pesto potato and green beans

📋The Classic Pesto With Trofie Green beans and Potatoes

Traditionally, the Genovese pesto recipe is served with fresh Trofie pasta, green beans, and potatoes. They are all cooked together as the starch from the potatoes makes the sauce creamier.

Course Pasta

Cuisine Italian

Diet Vegetarian

Keyword Genovese pesto, Pasta with Pesto, trofie with pesto

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings people

Calories 485kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

1 lb fresh trofie pasta cooking time should be around 3 minutes
2 potatoes
1 ½ cup Basil pesto
7 oz fresh green beans
1 tablespoon sea coarser salt
2 tablespoon Pecorino cheese or Parmigiano

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Peel and cut the potatoes into cubes
2 potatoes
In a large pan boil the potatoes for 13 minutes with 1 tablespoon of salt
1 tablespoon sea coarser salt
Clean and trim the stem ends of the green beans
7 oz fresh green beans
Add the green beans to the boiling potatoes and boil for 2 more minutes
Add the trofie and cook for 3 more minutes. (These trofie cooking time is 3 minutes. )
1 lb fresh trofie pasta
All the vegetables and the pasta should finish cooking at the same time.
Drain the Trofie, the potatoes and the green beans
Mix immediately with the pesto, add the pine nuts, more Parmesan and serve while still warm
Serve them

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Notes

Potatoes and green beans should be cut to roughly match the size of the trofie pasta.

This is important for two reasons:

- it helps ensure everything cooks evenly and finishes at the same time,

- and it allows you to easily get a complete bite with pasta, potato, and bean together on your fork.

Plan the boiling so that all ingredients finish cooking around the same time (approx. 18 minutes total for potatoes).

Potatoes: 18 minutes
Green beans: 5 minutes ( they should remain slightly crisp)
Trofie: 3 minutes

If your trofie package specifies a longer cooking time (e.g., 10 minutes), add them earlier so they finish cooking at the same time as the potatoes (around the 18-minute total mark). For 10-minute trofie, add them after the potatoes have cooked for 8 minutes.

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