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For many, a simple pasta dish is an easy, reliable weeknight option. However, said dish is almost always dressed with a relatively bare-bones marinara or possibly a simple garlic and oil sauce. Perhaps we're talking about a a quick carbonara or even a
cacio e pepe. But the
actual easiest pasta dish seems to somehow get "lost in the sauce" — pun obviously intended.
What dish am I alluding to? Pasta with basil pesto, of course! What a marvelous sauce, right? It's colorful, healthful, bursting with vitamins and raw. Best of all, there's truly no cooking required whatsoever to make pesto. It's stellar when mixed with pasta, but have you ever had it as a sandwich spread? As a dip for crudites? Mixed with mayonnaise? Pesto cream sauces are on another level entirely — I can't recommend them enough.