Pesto
Pesto

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pesto. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pesto is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Pesto is something that I have loved my entire life.

Pesto (Italian: [ˈpesto], Ligurian: [ˈpestu]), or to refer to the original dish pesto alla genovese (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpesto alla dʒenoˈveːse, -eːze]), is a sauce originating in Genoa. There are two forms — pesto alla genovese and pesto alla siciliana— and they come from Genoa and Sicily, respectively. While these and other recipes Pesto alla genoese is made with garlic, salt, extra virgin olive oil, Pecorino Sardo cheese, and Genoese basil.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pesto using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto:
  1. Take 1 cup packed fresh basil leaves
  2. Get 1/4 cup shredded parmesan cheese
  3. Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil
  4. Make ready 1/4 cup pine nuts
  5. Prepare 2 clove garlic, minced
  6. Take 1 pinch pepper
  7. Prepare 1 pinch salt

Need to use up a jar of pesto? Here are some great meal ideas using pesto so your vibrant, punchy sauce doesn't go to waste. An Italian dark green sauce for pasta originating in Genoa. It's made from pine nuts blended with fresh basil, parmesan or pecorino cheese, garlic and olive oil.

Steps to make Pesto:
  1. Toast pine nuts: place them in a skillet over medium heat until golden and fragrant. Cool.
  2. Place all but olive oil in food processor and turn it on. While running, drizzle the olive oil in until combined. Store in fridge.

Red pesto is made similarly but with either sun-dried tomatoes, grilled red peppers or pimiento.

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