Name: You’ll Want This Pasta With Chicory Pesto in Your Weeknight Rotation
Cook time: 10 minutes
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Ingredients: 1/2 cup whole blanched almonds 4 tablespoons olive oil; plus more as needed Juice and zest of 1 lemon 1/4 cup ricotta 1 medium head chicory (about 1 pound) 1 pound fusilli; mafaldine or another pasta shape; ideally one from Campania Salt and black pepper; to taste

You’ll Want This Pasta With Chicory Pesto in Your Weeknight Rotation

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Francine Segan | Fri, 10/03/2025 - 18:06

Pasta with chicory pesto makes an easy but flavorful weeknight dinner

Difficulty Level

Low

Cooking Time

10 minutes

Cost

Low

When you’re short on easy weeknight dinner ideas, remember this great formula: ��s will take any flavorful leafy green and then blanch and puree it to transform it into the base of a pasta sauce.

Here, chicory is used as the base for a creamy pesto. Chicory is particularly popular in central and southern Italy. In fact, the folks in Campania are so fond of it that they’re sometimes referred to as mangiafoglie or “leaf eaters” (just as Tuscans are sometimes calle