If you cook pesto with pasta do you use a whole jar?

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Is this where I'm going wrong as I've only ever used a scoop from the jar yet see many suggestions to use a jar??

Oh God think of the calories in that dust

For two of us I use two spoonfuls

I use the whole jar, but make extra so I can freeze a few portions. The jar needs to be used within two or three days, so it's either waste half the jar, make extra and freeze it, it eat the same meal night after night.

Perpendicular - I breathed in when I was in the pesto aisle of the supermarket. That's at least 7 servings by my reckoning.

@PerpendicularVincent

Oh God think of the calories in that dust

Better stop breathing!

I add creme fraiche which makes it taste nicer and go further

Uh...we have 8 people and use two jars at least - if there’s nothing with it (garlic bread etc) I might use three for us.

If we used less that two jars it would be pasta with hardly any pesto flavour - maybe we just have oddly weak taste buds!

Every day is a school day. As in do you literally just serve pasta and pesto as a meal (as well as a poster who mentions cream cheese and another who offers a side of garlic bread)? Dinner in 11 minutes? I'm a convert.

I use half a jar. Then throw away the furry second half next time I try to use it.

no i dont, but it does go mouldy in the fridge

@YouWereGr8InLittleMenstruators

Every day is a school day. As in do you literally just serve pasta and pesto as a meal (as well as a poster who mentions cream cheese and another who offers a side of garlic bread)? Dinner in 11 minutes? I'm a convert.

Sometimes yes!

I’m fairly positive that if you use a couple of teaspoons you can’t legally call it pesto pasta. It’s just plain pasta 😂

@boozynamechange

I use half a jar. Then throw away the furry second half next time I try to use it.

Freeze the left overs 👍

No! Far too oily for me. I add a few teaspoons.

No! Far too oily for me. I add a few teaspoons.

I'd rather have more sauce, with pesto in it, rather than just pesto on the pasta.

I spotted this recipe on the Gousto website earlier, where the sauce is a mix of pesto, chicken stock and cream cheese over chicken and pasta.

@YouWereGr8InLittleMenstruators

Every day is a school day. As in do you literally just serve pasta and pesto as a meal (as well as a poster who mentions cream cheese and another who offers a side of garlic bread)? Dinner in 11 minutes? I'm a convert.

Children love it. Pasta shapes (usually fusilli or penne) with red pesto and covered in cheese. Can add anything you like, olives, ham etc but they just like it as is. Stick a garlic bread on the side and some raw veg, dinner done in 10 mins. Mine take it to school in a flask as well.

@YouWereGr8InLittleMenstruators my recipe is pasta with chopped up packet of smoked salmon, few teaspoons of pesto and few dollops of cream cheese. We serve with veggies. Takes 10-15 mins and is one of our favourites.

I also would never have considered pasta with pesto on a complete meal. Not in a competitively virtuous way or anything like that, i just think of pesto as a dressing rather than a sauce or proper meal component.

Different stokes and all that though.

TooCold; bizarrely, my DDs also take pasta with a mere smear of pesto (and chopped gherkins -weirdoes!) to school in those little tubby thermos flasks, but I have only ever thought of it as a lunch snack!