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Pesto Recipe


Pesto Recipe
Simple Pesto recipe.

Erin1231

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Ingredients
  • 2 cups fresh basil leaves, packed
  • 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
  • 1/2 cup Olive Oil
  • 3 tablespoons Pine Nuts
  • 3 Garlic cloves finly minced

Directions
  1. Place basil leaves in small batches in food processor and whip until well chopped (do about 3/4 cup at a time).
  2. Add about 1/3 the nuts and garlic, blend again.
  3. 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.
  4. Process basil pesto it forms a thick smooth paste.
  5. Repeat until all ingredients are used, mix all batches together well.
  6. Serve over pasta. Basil pesto keeps in refrigerator one week, or freeze for a few months.

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Comments


Love Pesto but you forgot to put Basil in the ingredient list.


I could live on this....;-)~~ Jim


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