Fresh and rich --- Homemade Pesto Pesto

Overview

Pesto is a cold sauce for pasta. The ingredients are also very simple: fresh basil leaves, pine nuts, minced garlic and olive oil. These are the basic ingredients of pesto. With these, you can make the most basic and most popular pesto. It is very convenient to use, just mix it with cooked pasta, and it has a very strong aroma of basil and pine nuts. Compared with meat sauce that takes a long time to cook, this cold sauce is healthy and delicious, and is especially popular among girls. Most of the time, Pesto is used to mix noodles and spread bread, but now it is used more and more. It can be used to make marinades and dipping sauces for various meats, even steaks.

Tags

• western-style banquet
• italian food
• olive oil
• parmesan cheese
• pine nuts (ripe)
• black pepper
• fresh basil
• garlic
• lemon zest
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the leaves of fresh basil and drain.

   

2. 2 Grate the cheese, shell the pine nuts, remove the pine nuts, peel the garlic and cut into small pieces.

   

3. 3 Place basil leaves, cheese, pine nuts, garlic, lemon zest, salt, and black pepper in a food processor, add olive oil one at a time, and blend.

   

4. 4 Whisk until it becomes a paste.

   

5. 5 Put it into a glass bottle, drizzle with olive oil, and keep it sealed.