Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, penne pesto with ham. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

Steps 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! :-)

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