Recipe: Yummy Pesto Sauce

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Pesto Sauce. The recipes were Easy Pesto by Rebecca Jane Thompson, Pesto Sauce by Sara, and Simple Garlic and Basil Pesto by FuzzyGreenMonkey. It had a nice nutty flavor because of the toasted almonds. Combine basil, oil, pine nuts, and garlic in a blender.

I like to serve the pesto over butter gnocchi with an extra sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.

Gnocchi are light little Italian potato dumplings, which are available in Italian grocery stores and cook up in mere minutes.

The pesto is also delicious tossed with penne or other types of pasta. —Sue A.

You can have Pesto Sauce using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pesto Sauce

  1. It’s of pesto.

  2. You need of garlic.

  3. Prepare of purple basil.

  4. It’s of toasted pine nuts.

  5. You need of plus 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil.

  6. It’s of chopped shallot.

  7. It’s of parmesan cheese.

  8. It’s of asiago cheese.

  9. Prepare of kosher salt.

  10. It’s of white pepper.

Jurack Pesto is my favorite sauce for any pasta.

Get Ina Garten's easy Pesto recipe, featuring walnuts, pine nuts and basil, from Barefoot Contessa on Food Network.

It's perfect with pasta or in sandwiches.

Pesto also works well as a base for pizza (instead of tomato sauce), whisked into scrambled eggs, thinned out with mayonnaise for a french fry dip, added to sour cream for a chip dip, or spread on crusty bread for a sandwich.

Pesto Sauce instructions

  1. Toast pine nuts first. In a small pan over medium heat place in pine nuts. Cook for just a moment or so, shaking the pan or stirring. They are done when you just start the smell the nuts and are a very light brown..

  2. In a food processor, add the shallot, cheeses, basil, garlic, salt and pepper. Turn on low speed and drizzle in the oil. Blend ingredients until no chunks of garlic or cheese show. Under 30 seconds..

  3. Heres your pesto. Add this over cooked pasta or I love to top grilled chicken with this..

  4. This is good for 1/2 pound of dried pasta. Store in an airtight container up to several days in the refrigerator..

  5. Recipe by taylor68too. Inspired by my friend Petra..

The key to making creamy pesto is to add the ingredients to the food processor in the right order to ensure that the nuts break down to a fine paste before the greens have a chance to turn brown Use basic basil pesto as a pasta sauce, or thin it out with a little olive oil to drizzle it over steak, chicken, fish, pizza or tomato salad The mint-pistachio variation is inspired by the chef Travis.

Exquisite in its simplicity, the only thing I added was a pinch of kosher salt.

A hint for keeping the pesto mix creamy~ save some of the cooking water from the pasta.

Add it slowly to the drained pasta & pesto paste.

It will make a creamy, hot sauce that will coat the pasta smoothly.