Pesto Sauce Recipe
Pesto sauce recipe: use fresh basil leaves to prepare this Italian delicacy. If you're looking for tasty and heart healthy recipes, this one is for you. It uses only raw and unsatured fat from olive oil and pine nuts.
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):• 4 cups of pasta • a hand of fresh basil leaves |
 |
• about 3 table spoons of grated parmesan or pecorino cheese
• 2 tablespoons of pine nuts
• a clove of garlic
• salt
Difficulty: very easy
Time: 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 blender, 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.
| More Italian Pasta Recipes from Italian tradition: |
| Here You Have More Simple Vegetarian Recipes From Italian Tradition: |
Return to Italian Pasta Recipes
Return from Pesto Sauce Recipe to All About Italian Food homepage
Welcome to my Italian corner to share info, tips and recipes regarding Italian food and culture,
Copyright © 2008-2012 All-About-Italian-Food.com. All Rights reserved
