Easy Spaghetti Pesto with Garden Tomatoes

The easiest spaghetti pesto with fresh garden tomatoes! You’ll love this super simple dinner that only requires 4 ingredients and minimal effort.

Wanna make a really tasty pasta dish that requires only 4 ingredients and a few minutes to whip together? Okay okay. I gotchu.

You’ll love the flavors of this simple spaghetti tossed with pesto, parmesan cheese, and bursting garden tomatoes (because we all have an abundance of those right now!).

For this recipe, I left the tomatoes raw – I usually roast them. But I found I loved the texture and flavor of them just as they are! Especially when paired with the warm, cheesy, garlic-y pesto noodles. Yessss.

Let’s get cookin’!

The 4 Ingredients You Need

Yes, you heard correctly. Just FOUR ingredients needed for this meal! All you’ll need for this is basil pesto, cherry tomatoes, parmesan cheese, and noodles!

Pesto: you can either make your own pesto or keep it simple and purchase it at the store! See notes in recipe card for my walnut basil pesto recipe.

Tomatoes: I used an assortment of cherry tomatoes for this recipe, but you can also use larger tomatoes and cut them into smaller pieces as well.

Pasta: I made this with spaghetti noodles, but you can also switch things up and make it with penne, rotini, or bowtie pasta too.

How to Make Pesto Spaghetti

• Cook pasta as box instructs. Add spaghetti, a little pasta water, pesto, and parmesan cheese to a bowl.

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• Toss ingredients together. Then serve with tomatoes and extra cheese if needed.

Extra Recipe Tips

Cooking pasta: make sure to not over cook pasta, if it’s too soft it can fall apart and be an unpleasant texture.

Use pasta water: when cooking pasta it’s important to always make use of the water that it cooks in. A few tablespoons of it in this recipe will help the noodles from drying out.

Salt pasta water: it’s always good to generously salt your pasta water, in fact it’s actually hard to over salt it. It’ll give your pasta a wonderful flavor as well as the little bit of pasta water you use in the recipe!

What can I do with leftovers?

Store leftovers in fridge sealed in a glass container for 3-5 days. Reheat (with tomatoes) in a cast iron skillet pan with a little bit of oil. Refresh with pesto if needed.

What can I serve with this spaghetti?

You can serve this spaghetti with grilled or roasted chicken for protein, or keep it vegetarian with a side of sweet potatoes and salad.

I hope you enjoy this simple and delicious recipe! You’ll find in this dish that you can develop quite a bit of flavor with little ingredients and time. I know you’ll love it!

More Pasta Recipes to Try

• Cheesy Rotini with Roasted Vegetables
• 6 Ingredient Roasted Eggplant Pasta
• Fusilli Pasta with Sausage Ragu