How to Make Pesto Sauce

How to Make Pesto Sauce Welcome to Hoffmankitchen. Today we’re going to make pesto. Pesto or pesto sauce is a great summer dish but if you can get fresh basil, that is the key ingredient. You can make it any time. It is one of the simplest things to do so, spare yourselves a lot of money. You don’t have to go to supermarket to buy it or in a deli shop. You can make it yourself. All it takes is the ingredients and a good blender. And we can—we’re going to make the pesto sauce and we’ll have another recipe for pasta pesto so I hope you visit that as well. So the key ingredient is the basil. I have washed the basil, dried and it's about two cups, actually more than two cups, generous cup of basil. And I used the old fashion Cuisinart, any food processor will do it. We’ll put two cups of basils into the food processor and one cup of shelled walnuts. And I crushed about four to five garlic cloves, depends on what size you have. And we’re going to now quickly process this. Now we’re going to add on one cup of best olive oil. Try to go to a nice store or your favorite store, the best olive oil you can find and we’re going to put the blender on and slowly process or drop in the olive oil into the sauce. Let’s see. Well let's see. Oh, that looks great. We’ll just get it off the walls here and the next step, what we’re going to do, we’re going to add on one cup of parmesan cheese. It's fresh grated parmigiano cheese, a quarter of a cup Romano cheese also fresh and grated. We’re going to add on about a half a teaspoon of salt and a very generous grinding of pepper. I would say this is about a half of teaspoon or three quarters of a teaspoon. And now we’re going to reprocess it. Okay, that looks absolutely perfect and here is our pesto sauce. We’ll just add a little touch of basil here, just to make it look pretty. You can refrigerate it and use it for different dishes. Our favorite dish is pasta pesto and if you visit Hoffmankitchen and you’ll be able to look up how to make pasta pesto. So please visit Hoffmankitchen and enjoy and bon appétit.