How To Make Homemade Basil Pesto Sauce
Pesto sauce is a classic Italian sauce in many pasta, meat, and salad dishes. Impart bites of basil, pine nuts, and garlic to meals with this easy recipe.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 6ozfresh basil leaves,(about 6 cups), lightly packed
- ½cuppine nuts
- ½cupparmesan cheese,grated
- 2garlic cloves
- ½tspsalt
- ½cupextra virgin olive oil
Instructions
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Place half of the basil leaves into a food processor with all of the pine nuts, parmesan cheese, garlic cloves, and salt. Pulse until the ingredients are finely chopped but not quite a paste.
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Use a spatula to scrape down the sides of the food processor and add the remaining basil. Continue to pulse until paste-like consistency forms.
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Remove the lid and slowly pour half in the olive oil and pulse the ingredients together until it’s mixed well. For a more liquid style pesto, add the remaining olive oil and pulse again to mix.
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Taste the sauce and just the seasoning as desired.
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Serve over salads, pasta, and other desired dishes, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 145.71kcal
- Fat: 14.54g
- Saturated Fat: 2.54g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 8.10g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.96g
- Carbohydrates: 1.48g
- Fiber: 0.45g
- Sugar: 0.30g
- Protein: 3.46g
- Cholesterol: 4.21mg
- Sodium: 86.20mg
- Calcium: 100.35mg
- Potassium: 83.19mg
- Iron: 0.87mg
- Vitamin A: 50.30µg
- Vitamin C: 2.75mg
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