My Simple Pesto Recipe
My Simple Pesto Recipe

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, my simple pesto recipe. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have my simple pesto recipe using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make My Simple Pesto Recipe:
  1. Take packed Fresh Basil, leaf and stems (8 ounces by weight ) approximately 3 cups packed
  2. Get Extra virgin olive oil
  3. Take Parmesan cheese, fresh grated (not processed)
  4. Make ready Garlic
  5. Take Kosher salt or Sea salt (Do not use table salt/ Iodized salt for cooking or for consumption)
  6. Take Equipment Needed:
  7. Take dry cup measure
  8. Make ready liquid measure
  9. Get measure
  10. Make ready measure
  11. Get Collander/Strainer
  12. Prepare Optional: small scale (for weighing basil)
  13. Make ready Food processor or blender

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Steps to make My Simple Pesto Recipe:
  1. Wash Basil in sink and drain with Collander/ Strainer
  2. Place in food processor (or blender) in order; garlic cloves, basil, parmesan cheese, 1/2 the olive oil, then pulse
  3. Slowly add rest of olive oil while pulsing
  4. Keep pulsing until wet sand consistency, should be uniform in size and texture.
  5. Taste, add 1/2 tsp of kosher salt if needed, never use table salt as it should never be used for cooking, or consumption in my opinion.
  6. Store in refrigerator (will last at least 1 week - can be frozen if making larger batches).
  7. Put away food and wash equipment and let dry
  8. Mix or add to favorite foods for fun twists (Great on; pasta, pizza, in sauces, hummus, salad dressing, dips, mayonnaise, potato salad, gnocchi)
  9. Note: I have used both a food processor and a good blender (Ninja) both worked for me. It is important to put the cheese on top of the basil to help hold down the basil for a smoother and consistent texture through out.

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