Beetroot Pesto Pasta

This is absolutely delicious!! I used about 450g of roasted dark red beets. The sauce came out bright magenta, so a bit different from the photos here. 🤭 My beets were particularly sweet from roasting, so I needed more lemon for balance. I will definitely make this one again.

This was so much fun better than I expected. I’d rate it as phenomenal. It’s so so creamy and delicious. I used soba noodles instead of spaghetti. Highly recommend!

PUL Team - Feb. 20, 2026, 1:35 a.m.

Woww we're thrilled to hear this, Yasmine, thanks for the glowing review! So glad the beet pasta was enjoyed 💖

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Best beetroot recipe ever!

Portions are a bit small, but we just make more or make a salad on the side. Also to reduce costs we use half pine nuts, half sunflower seeds. Makes it just a little bit less creamy, but a lot cheaper! Also tried to swap out the pine nuts completely for sunflower seeds, but that made it significantly less tasteful. Hope this helps someone :)

Hello!

Question for you! I tried making this and the taste was very beetroot, not so much the basil? Anything I could do? Or may have missed? The only thing that o forgot to follow was toasting the pine nuts - and the color also looks like beetroot, not like the recipe picture

PUL Team - Dec. 22, 2025, 4:54 p.m.

Thanks so much for giving this recipe a try and for sharing what you noticed, Jaya 🤗 A strong beet flavour can happen if the beets are on the larger side, so if yours were bigger, that would explain both the deeper beet taste and colour. For us, 3 cooked and peeled beets weighed about 500g. If you have any leftovers, adding a bit more basil, lemon juice, and salt could help balance things out, or a little extra nutritional yeast or garlic could also bring back some savoury depth.

Toasting the pine nuts also makes a difference. It adds warmth and nuttiness, which helps round out the earthiness of the beets and lets the basil shine more. For next time, you could try using slightly smaller beets, or start by blending in two and tasting before adding the third. Hope this helps for now 🫶

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I made this dish today and loved it! It’s so yummy — the beets combine so well with the pine nuts and make it even tastier. I’ll try again making this pink pasta for my 3-year-old son 🥰

This dish was tastier than I expected! The pesto was not overwhelmed by the beets and was pleasantly savory.

Delicious. I used beets from my garden. Would only use 30g of pine seeds next time - this time I used a packet of 80g and the taste was a bit too dominant for me. Fabulous and fun colour.

PUL Team - Aug. 26, 2025, 4:30 a.m.

Beets from the garden sound amazing! Thanks for taking the time to share the review, friend ☺️

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So surprisingly good! Feels like having a dish at a fancy restaurant

This is soooo delicious! I used cashews instead of pine nuts and Wow so tasty

Very easy and tasty. Perfect for a lazy Valentine's Day!

Simple but yummy. I roasted rather than boiled the beetroot. Didn’t have basil but added white miso for extra umami and pasta water as the pest felt quite thick before

Very pleasantly surprised by this as not a beetroot lover!

This is delicious! I recommend a drizzle of balsamic as a garnish.

Simply delicious! I can't believe how easy and tasty this dish was. Will be making it weekly :)

I’m not the biggest fan of beetroot but this was delicious!

Hello!!! Does the pine nuts can be replaced by another nuts like cashews?

PUL Team - Sept. 25, 2024, 5:43 p.m.

Hey Manuella, yup you can replace pine nuts with another nut like cashews! We've also heard positive reviews for pumpkin seeds and pistachios as a substitute. Walnuts would also be a great alternative 🤗

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Great!

Very easy to make and delicious. I added some pasta water. Such a nice way to use my home-grown beetroots.

It was really delicious!!
I used frozen basil cause I was out of fresh one, but it still was perfect.

Do you think this is freezable?

PUL Team - July 26, 2024, 6:05 p.m.

Hey Sandra, we're glad you enjoyed it! We haven't tried but we imagine the beet pesto itself freezes well. It might be best to cook the pasta just before you want to serve it - we find thawing frozen cooked pasta can affect its texture 🤗

Hey Sandra, we're glad you enjoyed the recipe! We haven't tested it, but we imagine you could freeze the beet pesto itself, but we recommend cooking the pasta fresh when you're ready to serve. Freezing cooked pasta can affect its texture when it thaws, so it's best to prepare it just before you need it if possible 🤗

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Hey,
We have made it his recipe today and it was delicious. But, we also had the feeling that the quantities we used were a bit off. We have our home grown beetroots and some were quite large.
How many gram is one beetroot for you?

PUL Team - July 14, 2024, 7:04 p.m.

Hey there, Thomas, thanks for the feedback. Our beets weigh about 100 - 120 grams before cooking, so they're not that large. I hope this helps for now, and sorry for any confusion we might have caused. Your feedback means a lot, and we're exploring adding weights to some vegetables in recipes in the future 🤗

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We had some leftover pistachios from a previous recipe, so we used them instead of the pine nuts, and it was still very delicious. Definitely a new favorite 👩‍🍳

One of our most favourite recipes and also toddler approved, very loved, thank you ♥️

Lecker war‘s! I have steamed the beetroot before and it came out super tasty!

First time tried a non-traditional pesto, and it was mind blowing.

I was excited to make this, but it blew my mind on how it tasted. It's so simple. It's so yummy. It shouldn't be so easy. Amazing recipe. Thanks Sadia and the team :)

PUL Team - April 1, 2024, 6:40 p.m.

Awe thanks so much for the glowing review, Praveen! It means a lot that the beetroot pasta was enjoyed 😊

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So yummy!!! Definitely going to be a repeat meal!

Quick to make and tasty.

Delicious and easy to make!

I loved it!

Not only could my toddler basically make the pesto herself, but both toddler and partner loved eating beetroot! The ingredients are easy to store for a busy day in the cupboard, as this is done in just a few minutes! Amazing :3

Leah S - Feb. 10, 2024, 11:08 p.m.

Also, I used cashews instead as that is what I had on hand, and it was still delicious

PUL Team - Feb. 11, 2024, 12:57 a.m.

Gosh this is so exciting to hear, Leah! We're thrilled that the Beetroot Pesto Pasta was enjoyed and are sending lots of love to you, your little one, and partner 🫶✨

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Very tasty and so quick and easy to make.
I did have to loosen the pesto mix substantially when reducing the portion size to one, but it certainly didn’t detract from the deliciousness.

Very delicious😋

We loved it. At first I was a little bit sceptic, because it did not look super super tasty, but it was delicious and super easy and quick to make! My 2 year old son was also a big fan of it! 🤩 I did baked the garlic first and I switched the spaghetti to soba noodles. 🩷

PUL Team - Jan. 9, 2024, 9:39 p.m.

Aww so happy it was enjoyed, especially by the little one 🥰thanks, Silvana!

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Yum!

Not sure about lemon, but overally easy and tasty :)

Beetroot mass would be helpful, ours came out very soupy when made to the proportions provided. Assuming our beetroots are massive, will be trying again with one or two.

PUL Team - Dec. 29, 2023, 7:38 a.m.

Hey Julia, thanks so much for the feedback, it really helps us improve what we do. I suspect each beetroot for us weighed around 100 grams (give or take). I hope this helps! 😊

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Delicious. Even my one year old devoured this.

Delicious!!

Delicious, we love it! 😍

Easy to make, not a lot a chopping, very filling due to the nuts - and the colour is a plus! ❤️ very practical, would do it again!

So delicious!

Love the bright pink colour of this, and definitely an easy make. I often find beetroot too sweet, but the basil really balanced this out.

Loved this recipe! I substituted the pine nuts for pumpkin seeds as I‘m cooking on a student budget. Still, the outcome is super delicious!

As I have a ton of beetroot pesto now: How long does bottled pesto stay fresh in the fridge?

PUL Team - Nov. 6, 2023, 3:10 p.m.

So glad you enjoyed it, Marie! The pesto will be the most fresh in the first 3 days, but it should last up to 5 days :)

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So so easy ! Perfect after a long working day. My beetroots were quite big, so I used more salt, lemon jus and garlic. At the end it had quite a sweet flavor. Thanks ❤️

So easy and SO good! Will be making this again!