Fresh Basil pesto with fresh basil leaves and olive oil. A super easy recipe to make Italian pesto with basil.
It’s not very easy to get fresh basil in Singapore. It’s not impossible either but somehow, when I do come across them in the supermarket, I feel they are wilted and cost too much. Why bother when there are a gazillion different types of other greens around, that are more local.
I did, however, manage to score an entire bag of super fresh basil in Giant supermarket a couple of weeks back. Ooh the flavour was mind blowing.
Although I have tried pesto pasta and pesto chicken before in restaurants, making your pesto is way better! I was a bit skeptical if TH would like it but he actually loved the pesto pasta I made with it.
You can also make interesting bread recipes with pesto like these pesto pull-apart rolls.
Fresh Basil Pesto Recipe
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 3/4 cup 1x
- Category: Dips
- Cuisine: Italian
Description
A fresh basil pesto recipe with basil leaves, parmesan cheese, and olive oil. Perfect to add to pasta!
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 cups fresh basil leaves
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 tsp minced fresh garlic
- 1/3 cup pine nuts
- 1/2 to 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Add all ingredients into a food processor or mixie jar
- Pulse until combined and keep grinding to desired consistency
- Refrigerate up to 4 days or so tastes best fresh!
Notes
You can replace pine nuts in basil pesto with walnuts, cashew nuts, or any other nuts you have in hand.
Pictures in this post taken in the home made light box for food photography.
Thats a very good recipe Nags. I will be making some pullapart buns shortky & will use this pesto recipe as filling. BTW you can find fresh basil leaves in wet markets.
Can I use a few leaves of tulsi along with spinach, to get the basil flavour without the overpowering tulsi flavour, Fresh basil leaves are not available where I stay (Mysore), and I prefer not to use the dried ones.
the basil used in this pesto is the italian kind. tulsi is not a good substitute for it.
Lovely pesto recipe. Yum! Even tastes soo good on Kelp noodles which are growing in popularity here in the U.S.A
Oh thats an aromatic lovely dip
The picture is soo professional nags! Till I saw your trademark tiny cups/moulds I thought for an instant that you downloaded the image from someplace! Love it!! 🙂
the moment i saw this pesto recipe i knew i'd be trying it and wen i went shopping, i managed to find everything needed.. ane the first thing i did after coming home was making the pesto..
and with the pesto , cooked and yum yum plate of pasta… and it was amazing, to say the very least..
thanks nags!!!
p.s : i am waiting for ur pesto pasta recipe to improvise mine!!!
I am a hardcore fan of pesto sauce and the picturization is mind blowing.i loudly say wow
I want to just kiss the basil in the last picture. Kiss it for me will you?
I'm making some of this this weekend Nags. Having a craving for pesto and penne.
Amazzzzzzing photographs Nags !!! (Earlier was also me, selected the wrong option in the dropdown)
Amazzzzzzing photographs Nags !!!
Pine nuts are damn costly and i use walnuts or almonds or both together.
Pictures are great and the pic box is working wonders….should i make one too 🙂
Healthy recipe…Thank You for the recipe
Wow! Just when I was looking for a fool-proof recipe of Pesto. Awesomeness this. Bookmarked!
PS: Like I said before, those pictures look great!
Hey Nags, next time if you can't find basil you can replace it with spinach leaves and 1-2 tbsp of dried basil. It is delicious! I call it Winter pesto because basil doesn't look too good in the Winter months and spinach is widely available not to mention that it is also cheaper 🙂
Cheers,
Heg
wow, love the color of pesto. I am a big fan of pesto sauce and wow on your photography too. Loving it.
That's a fantastic tip for making fresh spinach pesto Heg! Thanks 🙂
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Oh, you live in Singapore? So lucky! I've always wanted to visit there. I totally agree with you – fresh basil is absolutely amazing, it's one of my favorite things in the WORLD.
What vibrant colors and tempting Pesto! Just need a toasted bread slice to devour it.
Like the bright Color of this Pesto. Homemade sounds so fresh already. Will sure try this one..
Love love pesto and your look so so good.
Thats a delicious and catchy pesto..
Delicious – nothing quite like homemade pesto!!
The pesto looks so colorful..Love this with penne pasta..
G
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What is better than this..huhhh??, yummmm fresh pesto!!!
Lovely,never ever tasted before,will try tasting…Nice clicks 🙂
This pesto is looking soo yummy. must be very aromatic
Cook Healthy
I love pesto sauce especially the fresh one!
You get organic pine nuts in Fairprice, Sowmya 🙂
I tried with spinach and walnuts few days back..difficult to get pine nuts too in SG..isn't it?love the texture and colour of the pesto..waiting for your pasta recipe..