# White wine & Pesto Pasta

This Basil Pesto and Creamy White Sauce pasta is an easy, impressive dish, with fresh basil pesto for flavor, and a creamy white sauce with heavy cream, garlic, and white wine, finished with mini mozzarella, chili flakes, and olive oil.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 clove garlic
- olive oil
- white wine
- heavy cream
- salt
- pepper
- Parmesan cheese
- pasta
- pine nuts
- basil
- mini mozzarella balls
- chili flakes

## Instructions

1. Crush and chop the garlic.
2. Add olive oil to a pan.
3. Add the chopped garlic to the pan and sauté it.
4. Pour white wine into the pan.
5. Stir the mixture in the pan.
6. Add heavy cream to the pan.
7. Add salt to the mixture.
8. Add pepper to the mixture.
9. Grate Parmesan cheese into the pan.
10. Stir the sauce until well combined.
11. Boil water in a pot and add salt.
12. Add pasta to the boiling water.
13. Stir the pasta while it cooks.
14. Add the cooked pasta to the white sauce.
15. Add a ladle of pasta water to the sauce.
16. Add grated Parmesan cheese.
17. Mix the pasta, sauce, pasta water, and cheese.
18. Place garlic cloves in a mortar with salt.
19. Crush the garlic and salt in the mortar.
20. Add pine nuts to the mortar and crush.
21. Add basil leaves to the mortar and crush.
22. Grate Parmesan cheese into the mortar.
23. Crush all ingredients in the mortar until a paste forms.
24. Add olive oil to the pesto in the mortar and mix.
25. Add the pesto to the pasta in the pan.
26. Mix the pesto with the pasta until everything is green.
27. Serve the pesto pasta on a plate.
28. Garnish with mini mozzarella balls.
29. Sprinkle chili flakes.
30. Drizzle with olive oil.
31. Grate Parmesan cheese over the dish.
32. The dish is ready to be enjoyed.

## Equipment

- knife
- cutting board
- pan
- spatula
- wine glass
- grater
- pot
- wooden spoon
- mortar
- pestle
- fork
- plate

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@breadbakebeyond/video/7422804502107000107
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/30451392-7f90-4731-9eb2-9cec152af524
- Extracted: 2025-09-02

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