Swap the traditional basil and pine nuts for cavolo nero and walnuts to make our cavolo nero pesto. A star rating green pesto pasta 5 out of 5. Rustle up this easy pesto pasta salad for the family. A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Whizz up delicious homemade pesto in under 15 minutes using just five ingredients. Make a vegan pesto to add to pasta, pizzas, salads and sandwiches. Enjoy our creamy pesto and kale pasta as a tasty and nutritious supper. Whizz up kale, pumpkin seeds, basil and garlic to make this easy kale pesto. Make a homemade pesto with parsley, basil and cashew nuts to stir through this comforting pasta.

We’ve been independently researching and testing products for over 120 years. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. A glossary of pasta shapes and names — and delicious recipes to try them. Pasta is one food we can’t get enough of. It comes in so many shapes and types that it keeps things interesting.

In the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, our food editors have developed thousands of pasta recipes. This long pasta shape is amongst the thinnest and works well when tossed in a thin sauce, oil or dressing. It also goes by capellini, which directly translates to “little hair,” and in this case means thin hair. This long pasta is best known for its signature hollow shape — aka its buco, which means hole in Italian — that you can slurp out of like a straw. It’s good for recipes that require twirling and minimal poking with a fork, like hearty sauces with meatballs. Named for its resemblance to handbells, this shape captures small ingredients, like corn and peas, in the best way so you can get a full bite of your favorite recipe in every forkful.