Sphagetti el pesto

Pesto is an Italian word which means to crush or to grind. A Sphagetti made with a sauce of crushed herbs/ tomato/ nuts & cheese is Sphagetti el pesto. The pesto sauce has several variants and can be used to cook sphagetti or pasta or like I tried, it can be used with rice too!!
The pesto sauce is generally made by hand-crushed herbs like basil (tulasi), mint (pudina), rucola along with pine nuts / walnuts/ cashew nuts, garlic flakes, cheese.
More about pesto sauce @ Pesto sauce. 
I tried this delicacy for the first time in an authentic Italian restaurant Perla porto . I was in love with the aroma of the herbs and the cheese blended together! So, I decided to make this at home... Simple, tasty and classy it was.. So here goes the recipe.

Ingredients
5-6 table spoons -Basil, Rucola & Pine nuts pesto sauce (available in market)
3-4 tea spoons -olive oil
250 gms of raw Sphagetti
3-4 mint leaves for garnishing
Parmesan cheese (optional)

Procedure

Cook the raw sphagetti with about 3/4 lt of water. Drain the sphagetti and keep it aside after cooking it for 5-8 mins.
In a heated cooking vessel, add the olive oil. Now add the cooked sphagetti and the pesto sauce. Mix till the sauce blends finely with the sphagetti. Turn the stove off now and transfer the content into a serving vessel. Garnish it with grated parmesan cheese and mint leaves. Serve it hot.