Basil Pesto Sauce Recipe
My super favourite, very simple to make, classic, flavourful, fresh, versatile and super tasty Basil pesto Sauce Recipe is a wonderful blend of fresh basil, garlic, pine nuts, walnuts, lemon juice, oilve oil and Parmesan cheese.In addition to that, it comes together in minutes in a chopper and tastes worlds better peasto sauce which is better than store-bought.
Servings 1 Cup
Ingredients
- 2 cups basil
- 2 tablespoons pinenuts
- 1 tsp Walnuts
- 1/2 cup / 50 grams parmesan. Make sure to use the best quality for better pesto!
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 small garlic clove
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- To begin with, first pulse the nuts, garlic clove and lemon juice in the food processor until they’re finely chopped.
- Then add the basil leaves and pulse again. Next, drizzle in the olive oil and pulse for few seconds.
- In the last, add grated Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, process briefly until combined. Now test the taste and adjust the consistency by adding more of Olive oil if required.
- That’s it! It’s really simple to make.
Notes
1. Make a pesto pasta, use it for pasta salad, spread it on toast or use as a dip for roasted veggies
2. For vegan pesto, simply skip the Parmesan cheese.
3. For making good pesto sauce good quality olive oil makes all the difference. The recipe uses 1/2 cup.of oil which may sounds like a lot of olive oil but you need it, to make a good pesto.
If you don’t use enough, the pesto will be too pasty to use and it will be harder to blitz too.
4. You may swap out the pine nuts and walnuts for almonds & pistachios.