How to Make Basil Pesto Sauce: Classic Recipe

28.04.2024 13:42

Pesto sauce can safely be called one of the most colorful and famous: it is impossible to even imagine Italian cuisine without it.

Preparing it is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance.

However, you will have to prepare a list of necessary ingredients, warns Yulia Arkhipova, an expert in culinary matters for the online publication BelNovosti.

How to Make Classic Pesto Sauce at Home

List of required ingredients

- about one hundred grams of fresh basil leaves;
- a clove of garlic;
- about two spoons of pine nuts;
- about 50 grams of cheese (parmesan);
- 2-3 tablespoons of quality olive oil;
- half a small spoon of salt.

Cooking process

First, it is worth sorting out the nuts. About 50% of the total mass is left raw, and the rest is carefully fried. Basil leaves are washed and dried.

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The cheese should first be grated using a grater.

We send all the specified ingredients to the blender. You can chop the garlic with a knife beforehand. Then we start working with the blender.

Please note that the amount of oil may vary.

Stop whisking when the pesto reaches the perfect consistency.

Previously, we talked about how to cook perfect cutlets using three tricks .

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Julia Arkhipova Expert / Belnovosti

Content
  1. How to Make Classic Pesto Sauce at Home
  2. List of required ingredients
  3. Cooking process