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Making basil pesto at home is so easy and tastes better than the store bought ones…<\/p>\n
Honestly, I didn’t like the taste of basil pesto the first time I’d tried it at an Italian restaurant, it was too overwhelming for me. Hence, I didn’t care to buy or make basil pesto for an year. Then, once I’d\u00a0tried\u00a0pizza in which pesto was smeared on the pizza crust and topped with chicken and other ingredients. One bite of that pizza and I was blown away. The aroma and the flavor of basil\u00a0pesto made my tastebuds go crazy. It’s just in pizza’s the pesto gets a bit caramelized after it has been baked and my tastebuds embraced that taste.\u00a0After that, pesto\u00a0turned into one of my favorite Italian sauces\/spread.<\/p>\n
Since then, I’ve added pesto into many dishes: marinated\u00a0chicken in pesto and grilled it, mixed pasta with pesto, smeared pizza crust with pesto, made pesto panini, the list is endless…Literally, I became so obsessed with pesto.<\/p>\n
Pesto is a staple in Italy, it’s a sauce or spread that’s made by grinding basil leaves, garlic, pine nuts, parmesan cheese along with olive oil. Traditionally, the ingredients are\u00a0hand mixed on a\u00a0mortar and pestle. They add pesto to most of their dishes, mostly in pastas and pizzas.<\/p>\n
I used to buy store bought pestos as I felt lazy to make it at home. Once, I tried making pesto from scratch in my food processor, it only took a few minutes to make it and tasted fresh and much better than the store bought ones. After that, I shy away from store bought pestos.<\/p>\n
You only need a few ingredients to make basil pesto, fresh basil being the main ingredient. Use fresh basil for better taste and flavor.<\/p>\n
Pesto Recipes<\/strong><\/p>\n
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