Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pesto of basil and pine nuts. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Pesto of basil and pine nuts is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pesto of basil and pine nuts is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pesto of basil and pine nuts using 4 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto of basil and pine nuts:

1. Take 350 g basil leaves with stems
2. Get 300 g slightly roasted pine nuts
3. Take 15 g Himalayan salt (ca. 1 tbsp)
4. Make ready 300 g olive oil

This will impact the flavor and final quality of your pesto. To make this dish, I had to purchase pine nuts — which I don't have on hand because they're so pricey. Pesto - Recipe With Basil, Garlic, and Pine Nuts: Pesto is the perfect green food. Serve it on pasta, with eggs, with cheese, on crackers, with chicken or fish, worked into pasta or tortillas or with just about anything else that needs fantastic flavor.

Steps to make Pesto of basil and pine nuts:

1. Rinse your basil well e.g. in water with baking soda
2. Dry in sieve and with paper towels (if you're in a hurry)
3. Add to powerful blender (I use a thermomix)
4. Now continue adding the rest of the ingredients
5. Close lid and and if you are using - as I am - a tmx, place the tmx spatula into the gap of the lid and push down
6. Process at speed 8 for 20sec while swiveling the spatula back and forth
7. If you prefer your pesto smoother with fewer chunks of pine nuts and all leaves nicely pureed, continue previous step until desired consistency
8. After having repeated once step 6, I got my favorite texture of pesto, but my family prefers 15 sec longer, so by then it is very creamy
9. Now store in airtight containers and keep refridgerated up to two weeks. Just make sure the surface is always covered with a bit of olive oil before closing and storing.
10. Or freeze pesto in ice cube makers and take out when needed for pepping up a boring tomato sauce or just enjoy it on its own. Pesto with any pasta or on bread is amazing !!!
11. You can add lemon juice, garlic or even hummus. Any variations possible with this basic recipe !! Have fun

Pesto - Recipe With Basil, Garlic, and Pine Nuts: Pesto is the perfect green food. Serve it on pasta, with eggs, with cheese, on crackers, with chicken or fish, worked into pasta or tortillas or with just about anything else that needs fantastic flavor. I recently ate some marinated artichoke hea… • Use half basil and half rocket, replace the pine nuts with walnuts, and use pecorino instead of parmesan to keep things vegie. • Swap out pine nuts for almonds and basil for rocket. • Use hazelnuts in place of pine nuts and replace basil with flat-leaf parsley. • Go for an Asian vibe and use cashews, coriander and a squeeze of lime. How to serve broccoli pesto with basil and pine nuts: Try serving it with something other than spaghetti or pasta. It'd be great stirred through quinoa similar to this green quinoa.

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