Basil Sauce

The famous pesto sauce from Liguria is mainly made of basil and pine kernels, with the addition of olive oil, garlic and grated cheese. In Liguria it is mainly used to flavour pasta such as linguine (or trenette) or trofie, a hand-made twirl of pasta. There are also two further common uses of the sauce. One, which is only found east of Genoa, contains cagliata, a sort of junket, while on the western side, towards Savona and Ventimiglia, they cook potatoes and green bean