Pesto

Name: Pesto
Yield: Yield: About 1 cup.
Ingredients: ¼ cup pine nuts or almonds; ¼ cup fresh parsley; 1 cup fresh basil, tightly packed; 4 cloves garlic; ½ cup olive oil (preferably extra-virgin); freshly ground black pepper to taste; ½ tsp salt (or to taste); ¼ cup pine nuts or almonds; ⅓ to ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese; ½ cup olive oil (preferably extra-virgin)

Preparation info

Yield: About
1 cup
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Food Processor Bible

By Norene Gilletz

Published 2011

About

When basil is expensive, use a combination of basil and fresh spinach leaves. Pesto is perfect with pasta, fish or in salad dressings, soups and casseroles.

Ingredients

4 cloves garlic
1 cup fresh basil, tightly packed
¼ cup

Sauce
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

steel blade: Drop garlic through feed tube while machine is running; process until minced. Add basil, parsley, nuts, salt and pepper. Process until finely minced, about 20 seconds. Drizzle oil through feed tube while machine is running and process until blended. Blend in Parmesan cheese.

Transfer pesto to a bowl, cover and refrigerate. If you cover it with a thin layer of olive o