Course: Sauce
Tags: #vegetarian

Pesto

pesto-01.jpg

The muffin tin cups are, I think, an exact 1-portion size.

Substitutions: vegetable oil for the Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Any hard cheese for the Romano.

Source

Pizza by James McNair (Rockpile Press, 1987)

Ingredients

½ cparmesan
¼ cromano
about 2 c leafsbasil
3 clovesgarlic
½ cpine nuts
½ cEVOO

Bust Out

Cuisinart
muffin tin

Steps

  1. Grate the parmesan and romano in the Cuisinart if necessary. Dump the grated cheese in a bowl or the cutting board.
  2. Tear leafs off basil and save the stems.
  3. pesto-basil.jpg
  4. Put stems and garlic into the Cuisinart bowl and chop fine - like 5 seconds
  5. Add pine nuts and chop fine, another 5 seconds
  6. Add EVOO and cheeses and process about 10 seconds.
  7. pesto-muffin-tins.jpg
  8. Freeze in muffin tin and then transfer to a zip loc bag.