The art of Italian cooking: Ligurian trofie

Hi, this is the fifteenth post about the art of Italian cooking.

Today we want to tell you about another pesto sauce recipe.

Pesto sauce is an authentic  recipe from Liguria.  In Italy we use it to toss pasta, gnocchi,  lasagne and pizza as we have already written. Among the pasta shape there are trofie: a short pasta. You can see it here.

Well, trofie can be tossed with a sauce made with pesto, green beans (also called French beans or string beans) and potatoes. It tastes fantastic!

Italian pasta tossed with pesto sauce, green beans and potatoes

You can find step-by-step instructions in this page.

You can make this recipe all year. In winter you can use frozen green beans and winter pesto.

Don’t worry if you don’t find trofie. You can make this recipe with other short pasta shapes.

Serve pasta as you can see in the photo, well stirred. Put in the table grated Parmesan cheese in a little bowl. Your guests will be able to sprinkle it on their dishes only if they want.

Obviously is a vegetarian recipe. If you don’t sprinkle Parmesan cheese it is a vegan recipe too.

This is the main dish. To complete your meal you can prepare a seasonal green salad. Don’t forget fruit for  perfect Mediterranean diet!

Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta