The ingredients for Pesto include garlic, pine nuts, washed and dried basil leaves and coarse salt.
Pesto is a cold Italian sauce from Genoa.
Italy
pasta with green pesto
~pesto alla genovese
pesto in Tagalog: pesto (no direct Tagalog translation)
Basically its all about the tomato. Red pesto has tomato and uses much less basil leaves in its recipe. Also usually has almonds instead of pine nuts, to make it more crunchy. Perfect for sandwiches.
Some traditional Italian dishes that feature pesto as a key ingredient include pesto pasta, pesto pizza, and pesto bruschetta.
Some creative recipes that incorporate rocket pesto as a key ingredient include rocket pesto pasta, rocket pesto chicken, rocket pesto pizza, and rocket pesto grilled cheese sandwich.
Pesto is a green sauce made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, Parmesan cheese, and olive oil. It is traditionally made by blending these ingredients together in a food processor or mortar and pestle until smooth.
You can probably find green pesto without cashews anywhere in your average grocery store. If you can't then make it yourself! Just combine parsley, olive oil, salt, pepper,lemon juice, lemon zest and nuts (if you like) into a food processor.
It's pesto thickened with whole cream.
Pesto - album - was created in 1999.