Basil Pesto
A delicious pesto sauce recipe that tastes great on pasta.
Ingredients:
- 50 g pine nuts
- 3 – 4 bunches basil (approx. 75 g)
- 2 – 3 cloves of garlic
- salt (possibly coarse sea salt)
- 100 ml cold-pressed olive oil
- 50 g grated pecorino or Parmesan
- freshly ground black pepper
Method:
- Lightly roast the pine nuts in a dry pan. Pluck the basil leaves from the stems, peel the garlic cloves.
- Set up the blender. Chop the pine nuts, basil and garlic for at least 1 min. at the lowest setting together with 1 tsp. salt and half of the olive oil.
- Gradually add the cheese, then pour in the remaining oil. Season with salt and pepper.
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Here’s my recipe for pesto, very simple.
4 cups fresh basil
8 cloves garlic
1/2 cup pine nuts
2/3 cup olive oil
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
Directions:
Finely chop basil, garlic and pine nuts. Stir in oil, parmesan cheese, salt and pepper. Pour into ice cube trays and freeze, defrost and use as needed.