Pesto Sauce
From yadikay 16 years ago
- 3 minutes to make
- Serves 4
easy pesto for pasta, pizza or sandwiches.
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh basil leaves, packed shopping list
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese shopping list
- 1/2 cup olive oil shopping list
- 3 tablespoons pine nuts or walnuts shopping list
- 3 garlic cloves, finely minced shopping list
How to make it
- Place basil leaves in small batches in food processor and whip until well chopped (do about 3/4 cup at a time).
- Add about 1/3 the nuts and garlic, blend again.
- Add about 1/3 of the Parmesan cheese; blend while slowly adding about 1/3 of the olive oil, stopping to scrape down sides of container.
- Process basil pesto it forms a thick smooth paste.
- Repeat until all ingredients are used, mix all batches together well.
- Serve over pasta.
- Basil pesto keeps in refrigerator one week, or freeze for a few mont
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I grow so much basil I end up making lots of pesto,
so I end up freezing lots of it.
Sometimes I will blend up the leaves with a small amount of water and pour it into ice cube trays then use them up in soup as needed.
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