Linguini with creamy pesto, black olives and smoked bacon

For today we have a recipe with a nice and interesting name, but very simple: linguine with creamy pesto, black olives and smoked bacon. The key as you can imagine in any simple recipe is that the ingredients are of good quality. 

The best thing is that we make our own Genoese pesto sauce (we posted the recipe last Monday). So this recipe for today can be a great way to use up leftover pesto from another recipe. But also, if you want to make it and you do not have the ingredients to prepare the pesto at hand, you can already buy cans of prepared pesto that they sell in any supermarket. I recommend that in this case you buy a good quality Italian pesto.

I really like today's recipe, because on the one hand it is super simple and, on the other, it has a delicious flavor. The end result will be a super creamy and unctuous pasta, full of flavor and textures. We will also use smoked bacon to give it a different touch of flavor, but of course you can use the classic bacon or normal bacon, without smoking. Today they also sell a good variety of bacon in butchers. It is about the end that you can adapt the recipes to the ingredients that you have at home.

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Linguine with creamy pesto, black olives and smoked bacon is a super simple recipe with a delicious flavor. The end result will be a super creamy and unctuous pasta, full of flavor and textures.

• Irene Arcas

• Kitchen: Italian company
• Recipe type: pasta
• Calories: 420
• Rations: 4

• Cooking time: 30M
• Total time: 30M

Ingredients

• 400 g of linguine (can be substituted for any other long pasta such as spaghetti, noodles ...)
• 150-200 g of Genoese pesto sauce
• 100 g of cooking cream
• 75 g of cooking water for the pasta
• 150 g pitted black olives
• 300 g of cured smoked bacon (can be substituted for bacon)
• salt to taste
• pepper to taste
• a splash of lemon
• a splash of olive oil
• fresh parmesan to grate on top

Preparation

1. We cook the pasta according to the time indicated on the package so that it remains al dente following this method: cooking pasta in thermomix. We reserve 100 g of the cooking water in a glass (it would be like 1/2 glass), drain the pasta and reserve hot.

2. We put the bacon chopped to our liking in the glass with 20 g of olive oil and program 8 minutes, temperature 120º, speed 1, left turn.

3. Add the pesto, the cream, the olives, the salt, the pepper, the lemon splash and program 5 minutes, temperature 100º, spoon speed, left turn.

4. We add the pasta that we had reserved, the cooking water and we program 4 minutes, temperature 100º, spoon speed, left turn.

5. We serve the pasta in a bowl, grate the Parmesan cheese on top and drizzle with olive oil. To enjoy!

Notes

Be careful with the salt, because pesto is usually a sauce with a lot of flavor, so I recommend not adding salt to the sauce and, once you have finished it, rectify the salt if necessary.