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.
Aarti
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.
Nagalakshmi V
the basil used in this pesto is the italian kind. tulsi is not a good substitute for it.
Hilary
Lovely pesto recipe. Yum! Even tastes soo good on Kelp noodles which are growing in popularity here in the U.S.A
Sanctified Spaces
Oh thats an aromatic lovely dip
Keerthi
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!! 🙂
Ramya
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!!!
singh from dominos india
I am a hardcore fan of pesto sauce and the picturization is mind blowing.i loudly say wow
Anu Nandu
I want to just kiss the basil in the last picture. Kiss it for me will you?
Cynthia
I'm making some of this this weekend Nags. Having a craving for pesto and penne.
Rekha
Amazzzzzzing photographs Nags !!! (Earlier was also me, selected the wrong option in the dropdown)
Anonymous
Amazzzzzzing photographs Nags !!!