Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pasta with pesto genovese. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pesto Genovese is a pasta sauce that's typically used with traditional Ligurian pasta shapes such as Trofie, Trenette or Trofiette. Naturally, each Ligurian family has a special way to make pesto and with a secret recipe. However we'll be making ours from the official Genovese recipe.
Pasta with pesto Genovese is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Pasta with pesto Genovese is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pasta with pesto genovese using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta with pesto Genovese:
- Get Approx 40-50g of fresh basil
- Get 1 garlic clove
- Make ready Tablespoon or so of pecorino cheese
- Make ready Tablespoon or so of Parmesan
- Prepare Small handful of pine nuts
- Get Extra virgin olive oil
- Get Pasta: 500g (for 4 people)
- Make ready Water and salt
Whether it's lunchtime or evening, pasta with basil pesto tastes great at any time of the day. I know the original spaghetti pesto alla genovese from Italy, served with basil. Pesto pasta is one of the most popular dishes in Liguria, Italy—and it's one that's found lots of popularity worldwide! But in many cases, what you find when you order a pesto dish abroad just isn't the same as what you'd find in Liguria.
Steps to make Pasta with pesto Genovese:
- Wash and dry basil. Add to mini chopper or food processor. Add garlic roughly chopped, glug of oil, whizz it up
- Then add the grated cheese and whizz some more. Add another wee bit of oil.
- Add pine nuts as last and continue whizzing.
- End result :)
- Add to cooked pasta. When you drain it, drain quickly, the dripping water will help mix up the pesto. Mix it all up and enjoy, it's delicious, trust me
Here's what "pesto" really means, what pesto alla genovese. Drain the pasta, mix with the pesto and arrange on preheated pasta plates. Pesto alla Genovese is probably the most iconic dish from Genoa, the biggest city of the beautiful coastal region of Liguria. In Liguria, pesto is usually eaten with trenette (a pasta shape similar to linguine) or trofie (short pasta made by rolling and twirling small pieces of dough by hand). Add the authentic Italian flavour of fresh basil and PDO Parmigiano Reggiano to your favourite pasta dish with this Perfectly matched with 'al dente' Linguine, Pesto Genovese is ideal to give your dish a remarkable taste.
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