Recipe of Homemade My Simple Pesto Recipe

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, my simple pesto recipe. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

My Simple Pesto Recipe is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. My Simple Pesto Recipe is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Make ready Extra virgin olive oil
3. Get Parmesan cheese, fresh grated (not processed)
4. Prepare Garlic
5. Prepare Kosher salt or Sea salt (Do not use table salt/ Iodized salt for cooking or for consumption)
6. Make ready Equipment Needed:
7. Make ready dry cup measure
8. Get liquid measure
9. Take measure
10. Make ready measure
11. Take Collander/Strainer
12. Get Optional: small scale (for weighing basil)
13. Get Food processor or blender

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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