Basil Pesto
Basil Pesto

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, basil pesto. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Basil Pesto is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Basil Pesto is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

It enhances the flavor for all dishes like steak, chicken, fish, vegetables, and pasta! After the ingredients are combined and formed into a tube shape, simply slice whatever size portion you need and freeze the rest! Combine the basil, garlic, and pine nuts in a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped. Can basil pesto pasta be refrigerated and served cold the same as other pasta salads such as macaroni salad?

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have basil pesto using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Basil Pesto:
  1. Make ready 20 g pine nuts
  2. Get 20 g basil leaves
  3. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  4. Take 1/4 tsp pepper
  5. Make ready 1/4 garlic
  6. Take 5 tbsp olive oil
  7. Get 1 tsp water

Traditionally, pesto sauce was made using a mortar and pestle, which produces great texture. Combine basil, oil, pine nuts, and garlic in the bowl of a food processor. Add a large pinch of salt and process until smooth. Transfer mixture to a medium bowl and stir in Parmesan.

Instructions to make Basil Pesto:
  1. Place pine nuts into a dry pan and roast for a couple of minutes until light brown
  2. Place all the ingredients into a food processor (except for the water and olive oil)
  3. Blitz until a finely chopped consistency
  4. Transfer to a pestle and mortar, add work in the olive oil slowly and muddle (add water if a little thick in consistency)

Add a large pinch of salt and process until smooth. Transfer mixture to a medium bowl and stir in Parmesan. Basil pesto recipes often call for pine nuts but you can easily substitute walnuts. Basil is a powerfully aromatic herb and a little goes a long way. You can mellow the pesto out a bit by subbing half of the basil with fresh baby spinach leaves.

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