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
A fresh basil pesto recipe with basil leaves, parmesan cheese, and olive oil. Perfect to add to pasta!
Ingredients
- 4 cups fresh basil leaves
- ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
- ⅓ cup pine nuts
- ½ to 1 teaspoon 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.
sangeeta
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 🙂
xandra
Healthy recipe...Thank You for the recipe
cookcurrynook
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!
Heguiberto
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
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
wow, love the color of pesto. I am a big fan of pesto sauce and wow on your photography too. Loving it.
Nags
That's a fantastic tip for making fresh spinach pesto Heg! Thanks 🙂
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Roxan
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.
Sanjeeta kk
What vibrant colors and tempting Pesto! Just need a toasted bread slice to devour it.
Mythreyi
Like the bright Color of this Pesto. Homemade sounds so fresh already. Will sure try this one..