Pesto cavatappi recipe

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a spoon full of pesto cavata pasta with tomatoes and cheese on top

Pesto Cavatappi is a tasty copycat recipe of the famous Noodles & Company dish. This recipe uses fresh homemade basil pesto sauce. It smells and tastes amazing and is guaranteed to please the whole family. With this recipe, you can make a mouthwatering pasta any night of the week.

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noodles and company pesto cavatapi on a white plate

Pesto Cavatappi is a copycat Noodles & Company dish. The fresh pesto is paired with cavatappi noodles, tomatoes, spinach, and asiago cheese for a homemade version that is better than the original.

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a white plate topped with pasta covered in pesto

There’s so much to love about springy pasta, creamy pesto sauce, and bright diced tomatoes, so it’s no wonder Pesto Cavatappi is Noodles and Company’s most popular dish. Here’s the perfected copycat recipe that’s faster, less expensive, and maybe even just a little more delicious.

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pasta with cheese and bread on a plate in front of wineglasses, toast

In celebration of culinary school starting TODAY (squeal!) I made my favorite for dinner last night. This is my favorite meal. There. I said it. For whatever reason, I'm insecure about it. I feel like it's not significant enough to be my favorite because it's so easy. But oh gosh, it is. And if I'm being honest (and I am) I have rationed the left overs for myself and myself only so that I can eat them for lunch everyday this week. It's so simple and so good. It's sort of a knock off of the…

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a white plate topped with pasta and meat covered in sauce next to a red and white checkered table cloth

I’m going to be honest with you, I have never eaten at Noodles & Company. Truth be told, I thought it was some sort of Americanized lo mein place. Friend and fellow blogger, Alycia Nichols, with whom I discuss many recipes, told me how wonderful she found a copycat recipe for their pesto cavatappi. Considering that I had been making pesto the past week as well as harvesting cherry tomatoes like crazy, this seemed well worth trying. The advantage that I had having never been to Noodles…

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