Not teaching you how to suck eggs or anything, but I have never made my own pesto sauce before yesterday, so thought I'd give it a try. It went very well indeed...
Ingredients:
Small pack of button mushrooms
Large knob of butter
Large handful of fresh basil leaves
handful of pine nuts
1 clove of garlic (crushed) - or less if you don't want it too strong
50g parmesan
3 tbps of extra virgin olive oil (about)
Pasta
How to:
1. Heat the butter on a low heat in a large pan, clean and cut the 'shrooms into quarters and throw in. Start cooking the pasta.
2. In a blender, put in the basil leaves, pine nuts and garlic and puree away. Then add the oil bit by bit until you get the nice typical pesto sauce consistency. Add the parmesan and whizz again.
3. Once the 'shrooms have nicely browned, add the pesto sauce and stir. Then add in the cooked pasta.
4. Serve with an extra sprinkling of parmesan on top.
Words can't describe how good this tasted...
QueeneMab
Oh, that looks really good.
Thanks for sharing.
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