Spaghetti with spinach & walnut pesto

Wish I'd read the comments before I made this. At first glance I thought woohoo a pesto recipe without oil... it's truly awful. The flavours do not work and it is so dry. I added a little olive oil and a ladle of pasta water. I also left out the raisins because i just found that a too strange idea. Won't make this again, ever.

Very honest review here. I have a very varied pallette and not very fussy at all, and this sounded very tasty indeed on first glance. But the end result was incredibly bland dish, even with a good amount of extra lemon juice. The raisins absolutely did not go with it, I had to pick them out. Deeply unsatisfying.

Not bad at all. I don't do raisins so left them out. I only made this for myself so I didn't measure anything for the pesto. I probably halved the ratio of walnuts but added a handful of grated gran padano. I really enjoyed this pesto, much more affordable than anything with pine nuts. Made with standard tagliatelle (not wholewheat). I think the spinach is redundant and the dish is fine without, but a nice alternative might be some ribbons of courgette.

Though the pesto was going to be too lemony so I let it down with some olive oil but mixed into the pasta it was a little bland - somehow the lemon does overpower the herbs - it was ok - not amazing - definitely not grey though.

I thought this was pretty good, but it definitely needed oil (the pasta stuck together because the sauce was dry) and a good helping of parmesan/grana padano! I was concerned about the raisins but I ended up using big plump ones which were lovely - so much better than those hard dry tiny ones. I'm not sure how it turned out grey for people though - mine was lovely and green from all the herbs and spinach!

Didn't enjoy this at all and wouldn't make it again when normal homemade pesto is much much nicer!

This recipe was somewhat lacking, I added the following and it tasted so much better: 50g of grated parmesan 2 tablespoons of Olive Oil 1 extra garlic clove I added generous amounts of sea salt (about 1 big pinch) & black pepper (10 twists of a grinder) as it definitely needs these... The dish is a little uninspiring to look at, especially with the whole wheat spaghetti, I would add some roasted red peppers to the dish to give it colour.

I added a little oil, as suggested and found this to be nice. I served it with a tomato red onion and beetroot salad which provided a good contrast to liven the meal up.

Made this adding a little olive oil to the pesto...it was ok. Flavours tasted wrong somehow and the sauce was a little grey...not the best I've found on goodfood, husband enjoyed tho, although he eats anything.

I made this despite my concerns beforehand that the combinations of ingredients might not work well together. Unfortunately my instincts turned out to be true - this dish just does not deliver a satisfying experience; the combined flavours were actually quite unpleasant!