Pesto sauce is a traditional Italian recipe often used with pasta, but can be used as an accompaniment to other recipes.
O pesto sauce, is a traditional and very popular Italian recipe, which emerged in Genoa, in northern Italy. And although it is more common to use pesto sauce on pasta, this sauce can also have other uses, such as accompaniment to grilled meats, salads, snacks and even toast and bruschetta.
Therefore, today we are going to learn how to make this delicious and very easy-to-prepare sauce, which you can store for several days to use in various recipes. If you don’t have a traditional pestle, no problem, you can do it in a blender, mixer or even by hand.
Anyway, the preparation time is just 15 minutes and it makes a lot.
Take the opportunity to also check out the recipe for simple tartar sauce.
Pesto sauce recipe
Ingredients
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- 3 teaspoons shelled walnuts
- 100 g of grated pecorino or parmesan cheese (learn how to make tagliatelle with three-cheese sauce)
- 1/2 cup (tea) olive oil
- Salt and black pepper to taste
Preparation mode
- First, peel the garlic cloves, wash the basil leaves and dry well to make the sauce.
- Pass the garlic through a juicer or crush well in a bowl and add a spoonful of salt and mix well.
- Then, grind the nuts in a mixer or with your own hands and add them to the garlic with salt.
- Finely chop the basil leaves into small pieces and add them to the other ingredients in the bowl.
- Then, add the grated cheese and olive oil and mix everything very well until you reach a homogeneous paste.
- Finally, season with a little black pepper and your pesto sauce is ready.
Tips for preparing pesto sauce
- For the good result of this recipe, it is essential to follow the exact order of the ingredients, which is: first the garlic with the salt, followed by the walnuts, basil leaves, cheese and finally the olive oil and pepper.
- The traditional way to make pesto is in a mortar and pestle.but you can do it by chopping the ingredients well and mixing them in a bowl, or beat everything in a mixer, which works too.
- If you don’t have walnuts, you can replace them with pine nuts.
- You can make this sauce and store it to use as an accompaniment to soups, eggs, salads and grilled dishes.
- To do this, transfer the pesto sauce to a sterilized glass jar with an airtight seal. It lasts for up to 15 days in the refrigerator.
- In fact, if you freeze it, it lasts up to a month.
Anyway, what did you think of this recipe? Take the opportunity to also check out our guacamole recipe.
Sources: Tudo Gostoso Panelinha Recipes
