Try this LEMON FILEJA pasta with INCREDIBLY TASTY walnut pesto! - Pasta Please!

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds offer a similar texture with fewer calories.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast is dairy-free and adds a cheesy flavor.

Add a few teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil to a hot pan.

Shave the lemon zest into the oil, add a splash of water so it doesn't burn.

Add salt to the pot and boil the pasta, read the package for the time.

Squeeze two halves of the original lemon into the pan.

Add some extra pasta water and turn the flame to medium-high.

Finish cooking the pasta in the lemon mixture, remove the lemons.

Add walnut crumbs to the pasta as you wish.

Turn the flame off and add grated cheese (real cheese, please!).

Add the walnut pesto (flame off!).

Combine all the ingredients, add pasta water as needed to make it creamier.

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