Pesto sauce recipe
Pesto sauce recipe: how to make pesto with this easy pasta recipe.
This basil pesto recipe originates from Liguria (Italian region).
This homemade pesto doesn't need a specific shape of pasta, even if it's easier to mix short shapes.
In Liguria they usually make pesto using troffie, but you can use penne or similars. Otherwise you never make a mistake choosing spaghetti.
Ingredients (4 people):
• 0.88lb of pasta• a hand of fresh basil leaves
• about 3 table spoons of grated parmesan or pecorino cheese
• extra virgin olive oil
• 30g of pine nuts
• a piece of garlic
• salt
Difficulty: very easyTime: the necessary for boiling the water and cooking the pasta (about half an hour or less)
How to prepare:
Put the water to boil and begin to put the basil leaves into your mixer, add the garlic, the pine nuts and the grated parmesan. As it mixes, add extra virgin olive oil until it becomes a cream.When the water boils, add salt and the pasta and set your timer for the time needed for the kind of pasta you’re cooking (usually it’s written on the package). About 2 or 3 minutes before your pasta is done, take 2 or 3 spoons of the boiling water and add to your pesto. It helps it to become more creamer and easier to mix.
When the pasta is done, mix your sauce with pasta. It’s done! This pesto sauce recipe is also a heart healthy recipe (you have only raw and unsaturated fat), other than easy and tasty! Buon appetito!
What is pesto? Pesto comes from the verb ’pestare’ that means pound on, referred to the pounder where ingredients were put inside and then pounded with a pestle.
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