Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, penne pesto with ham. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Penne Pesto with Ham is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Penne Pesto with Ham is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook penne pesto with ham using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Penne Pesto with Ham:

1. Make ready 200 grams cooked penne pasta, keep a cup of pasta water
2. Prepare 3 garlic cloves minced
3. Make ready 3 tbsp of pesto genovese (blended basil, olive oil, garlic, pine nuts)
4. Make ready 3 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
5. Get 1/2 cup ham, sliced in strips
6. Take 1/4 cup shredded or shaved parmesan
7. Prepare pepper
8. Get 1/4 cup chopped basil

Instructions to make Penne Pesto with Ham:

1. On medium heat, quickly fry the ham in a non stick pan with a tsp of oil, set aside.
2. Saute (dont brown pls) minced garlic in oil in medium heat and add the cooked penne pasta. Add the pesto, pasta water, pepper and toss.
3. Increase the heat a bit and add the ham. After 2 min, remove from fire and toss half of the parmesan cheese.
4. Plate up and garnish with extra parmesan and chopped basil.
5. Note: ham and cheese will provide the salt you need so dont be tempted. You can add chilli flakes if you like the bite! Have fun! :-)

So that is going to wrap this up with this special food penne pesto with ham recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am confident that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!