Pesto

Pesto is great, simple and versatile and extremely tasty. It’s healthy can be used to spice up lots of meals. The most common use is mixed with your favourite pasta with some chopped onion, pepper, maybe some mushrooms and bacon.

This is my homemade Pesto. The ingredients are Sundried tomatoes, pine nuts, a clove of garlic, a handful of fresh basil, some black pepper, half a red chili, a pinch of salt and a splash of olive oil. Chuck all this into a small blender, blitz it up and use it any way you please.

This particular recipe shown here had a bit of rocket in there too, but i don’t think you could tell the difference. I was just experimenting.

Here’s another great use for it too. Get a loaf of your favourite bread. Spread some of your pesto on it, top it with cheese and black pepper and toast it under the grill. It tastes great. Overall it’s quick, simple and pretty cheap once you have the main ingredients in stock. 

 

Try sticking your pesto in with some tinned tomatoes, chopped onions, peppers, dried pasta and cheese, covering and lobbing it in the oven for half an hour, stirring half way through so the pasta cooks. A simple progression to the old pasta bake. 

Anyone have any other great Pesto recipes? I have a courgette one to post soon.