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Basil Pesto
May 4, 2014 Dips/Sauce, Pasta / Pizza Recipes
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Basil Pesto is a sauce with the bursting flavor of basil leaves, pine nuts & olive oil. Its great with pasta, sandwiches & salads. Its always better to prepare fresh basil pesto at home rather than the store bought ones. This recipe can be made easily & quickly using a blender in less than 15 mins. Scroll down for alternative ingredients that can be used to make this basil pesto.
Now to the recipe…
[Preparation Time-10 to 12 mins]
Ingredients:
- Fresh Basil – 1 cup (tightly packed)
- Pine Nuts – 1/2 cup
- Olive Oil – 1/3 cup
- Parmesan Cheese – 1/4 cup
- Garlic pods – 2
- Lemon juice – from 1/2 a lemon
- Salt – as needed
- Pepper powder – as needed
Method:
- Dry roast the pine nuts in a pan until it slightly brown. Keep this aside. Separate the basil leaves from the stem and wash it well. Take a blender and add basil leaves, roasted pine nuts, garlic, lemon juice & olive oil and blend it into a medium coarse paste. (U will not be able to see the olive oil & lemon juice in the pic) Then add salt, pepper powder & grated parmesan cheese and mix.
That’s it. Basil Pesto is ready. Is it not quick enough??
Use it in pastas (recipe coming soon) or sandwiches/salads.
Tips:
- U can substitute pine nuts with walnuts or any other nuts that u have handy.
- Add olive oil in batches so that grinding would be easier.
- Do not add water, the olive oil & lemon juice would help to grind it easily.
- U can reduce the amount of parmesan cheese or even skip it. Basil Pesto tastes good even without it.
- This can be stored for 3-4 days when refrigerated in an air tight container.
- Add salt accordingly as cheese has salt in it.
healthy pesto I do it very often too
Pesto is such a great all around sauce! You can do so much with it. Your photos are just gorgeous! Every one of them looks so professional!
healthy pesto..
always welcomed in summers 😉
oh my my it is indeed one treat to eyes and tummy:)
After mint and coriander leaves, am a fan of basil leaves, pesto looks simply flavourful.