Busiate with Roasted Pepper & Walnut Pesto

Busiate con pesto di peperoni arrostiti e noci

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 35

Appears in
Pasta Therapy: Over 100 nourishing recipes for relaxation, calm and healing

By Isabella Barbato

Published 2026

  • About

A vibrant pesto of sweet roasted peppers and toasted walnuts, wrapped around the gentle twists of handmade Sicilian pasta. Busiate are one of Sicily’s most recognizable pasta shapes, especially in the west of the island where they’re paired with Pesto Trapanese. The dough is rolled into long ropes and twisted around a skewer or ferretto creating light spirals that hold their shape beautifully when cooked. Their texture gives them just the rig