Welcome! This page is a tribute to pesto, the best sauce 💚
PESTO is an italian sauce made from basil leaves and olive oil.
"PESTO, or (to refer to the original dish) pesto alla
genovese, is a
sauce
originating in Genoa, the capital city of Liguria, Italy. It traditionally
consists of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves,
and hard cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano (also known as Parmesan
cheese) or Pecorino Sardo (cheese made from sheep's milk), all blended
with olive oil."
I'm Alice and I believe pesto is the best food in the world 🌿🌎
A few words about this page:
• Below you can find our family Italian special recipe for a very
delicious pesto and also a list with some benefits of pesto for you to
feel even better about eating it. 😆
• Pesto goes well with anything you'd like sauce with: pasta (of course,
that's the classic), toast, bruschettas, salads, pizza, with cocktails
(such as tomatoes and mozzarella, as in caprese), even on a sandwich...
Try it out! You can't go wrong with pesto 😋
• My favorite of all foods and personal recommendation for you is pasta al
pesto (pasta with pesto). For aditional adherence and even more
deliciousness, I like to add mild flavoured creamy cheese (requeijão or
catupiry in Brazil) to my pasta with pesto.
• If you're not believing in my word you may want to know about it from
other people's point of view. So feel free to check out this article
called
5 reasons why pesto is the ultimate sauce to illustrate my point.
👩🏻🍳 My family's italian PESTO recipe 👨🏻🍳
🍽🍽(serves 4 people)🍽🍽
Ingredients:
25 Basil Leaves (Genovese/Sweet type)
25g of parmiggiano (Parmesan cheese)
25g of pecorino (pecorino cheese, from sheep)
40g of pignoli (pine nuts)
1/2 glass of extra-virgin Olive Oil (approximately 100ml)
A pinch of Salt
That's all you need! Other classic recipes add some garlic as well.
Feel free to addapt this recipe! Specially if you don't eat some of the
ingredients and always consider products availability where you live. It's
not set in stone 😉
Preparation:
Wash and dry the basil leaves very well.
Put them in a blender with pure olive oil.
Add pignoli, a bit of salt and blend it briefly at medium speed.
Add both cheeses and blend it again until it reaches the desired
consistence.
Your PESTO is ready! Enjoy 😋💚
Benefits and positive features of pesto
• It's vegetarian
• Naturally gluten-free
• Leave out of recipe the cheese if you're
vegan or don't consume dairy products, or even nuts if you're
allergic - it's still delicious that way!
• Pesto is loaded with antioxidants: basil
and olive oil are rich in Vitamin E and Vitamin C!
• Pesto has a positive effect on
cholesterol: olive oil is rich in Monounsaturated Fats; thus, it
lowers “bad” cholesterol (LDL) and raises “good” cholesterol levels
(HDL)
• Olive Oil is protective against heart
disease, Has Strong Anti-Inflammatory Properties, help prevent
strokes, May Fight Alzheimer’s Disease and may eve Reduce Type 2
Diabetes Risk!
• It Can Help Normalize Your Blood
Pressure: pine nuts and garlic mixed into it have been proven to
help keep your arteries healthy.
• Pesto contains vitamins and minerals:
such as calcium, iron, potassium, manganese, selenium and
phosphorus. Also, basil has a small dose of vitamins A and K.
To finish I just wanted to point:
A world with more pesto and more people eating pesto is, ultimately, a
better and happier world. That's the reason for this page 😊
I hope you enjoyed this and I wish you lots of pesto in your life 🧘🏻♀️🌿
