How to make homemade pesto sauce

The presence in our region of a variety of products allows you to cook delicious dishes from different countries. Except the prices are failing. In pesto sauce, not all ingredients are available, but they can be safely replaced without much loss in taste. Editorial "Site" How to cook the legendary pesto at home and not go broke on ingredients.





Italians love to add this savory sauce as a dressing in pastes, replace them with tomato sauce in pizza. Pesto sauce can be not only an independent snack for sandwiches, it complements meat dishes well, combines with fish, and also comes out of it a wonderful marinade for chicken and salmon.

Pesto is a great reason to abandon mayonnaise, the sauce is much more tasty and not only successfully replace mayonnaise, but also add a piquant note to any vegetable salad.





The ingredients

• 200g basilica
• 150g pine nuts
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 150g parmesan
• 150 ml of olive oil
• 1/4 tsp sea salt

Preparation

1. Wash the fresh leaves of green basil and dry on a waffle towel.
2. Peel the garlic and soap the parmesan on a fine grater. Instead of elite parmesan, you can take ordinary hard cheese, the proportions are the same.
   
   
   
   
3. Add the sea salt. Iodized too.
4. Add some pine nuts. In the classic recipe, pine nuts are used, and they cost a lot, however, nuts in principle are not cheap, but pine are too expensive. Therefore, they can be replaced by walnuts. Just be sure to clean them of the husks so that the sauce is not bitter.
   
   
   
   
5. Dry ingredients grind in a blender. The mixture should be crumbly, but not porridgeous.
6. Add olive or flaxseed oil to the sauce. Stir the blender again. It is important to add the oil gradually so that it mixes well with the other ingredients.
   
   
   
   

Here. How to make pesto at home Without expensive ingredients, the taste remains unparalleled. Store pesto sauce at home You need to be in a jar under a tightly closed lid in the refrigerator for a week, it can also be frozen in small portions in the freezer for the winter.

If you like variety, we suggest you try sour and sweet sauce made of apples, it will complement the meat dish and is suitable as a dressing for vegetable salads. Refreshing cucumber sauce will appeal to fans of sour cream dressings.

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