Showing posts with label Pesto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pesto. Show all posts

Monday, May 23, 2016

Homemade pesto recipe

I am a big, very big lover of pasta for breakfast, lunch and supper. Call it my mono diet which makes me happy, very happy. However, after so many trials and errors, and a high demand in the home for my special pasta at least once the week, I need to diversify and be more creative. Hence, the need to work out ingredients and sauces, until I will be brave enough to buy my own pasta machine and, who knows, start my own pasta food line. My newest addition to the recipe book is the pesto, which I decided it is about time to have it homemade. Here are the results I am keen to share with my readers.
It serves three.
Preparation: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
30 walnuts
4 teaspoon Herbs oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dried oregano
around 40 leaves of fresh basilicum
4 garlic gloves
Put all these ingredients in the food processor and mix them at high speed for 5 minutes.
Take the mixture out and pour it in a bowl. Mix it well and wait when pasta are ready. Add the pesto together with the pasta in a hot pan and mix well.
It is recommended to be prepared and served fresh. If you want some sparkling taste, add one or two teaspoons of fresh lemon juice too. 

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Spaghetti combination

Saturday evening, after 8pm, you are not in the mood for too much cooking and if it's cold outside, going out to a fancy restaurant isn't a goos idea either. In such situations, with a hungry gang mumbling around, my creativity should be put on work immediately. I was lucky enough to find something interesting and the first reaction I remember was: it tastes as at the restaurant. A good encouragement for a sunny week, isn't it?
And, here is the suggestion:
two spoons of sesame seeds
5 walnuts grounded
one spoon of pesto
salt
parmesan
100 ml. sunflower oil

The sesame, with pesto, oil, and walnuts are fried for 5 minutes at 150C.
The boiled spaghetti - in salted water - are added and mixed together with the previous combination+the parmesan and maybe some pesto.
The total time dedicated to preparation: maximum 20 minutes.
The eating pleasure: almost infinite.

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