Dried Basil Pesto
Dried Basil Pesto. Fill Your Cart With Color Today! How to make dried basil pesto As an experiment, Alex and I mixed up a batch of dried basil pesto using the same method of traditional basil pesto, substituting the dried basil for fresh. We added dried basil, Parmesan cheese, nuts, garlic, and a little lemon juice to a food processor. Pulse till all are like a paste. Drizzle the olive oil while the blender or food processor is running. To cook Dried Basil Pesto you need 7 ingredients and 7 steps quickly.
The ingredients needed to make Dried Basil Pesto:
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1/2 cup of dried basil
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1/2 cup of extra Virgin olive oil
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1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese
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1 teaspoon of minced garlic
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1/4 cup of pine nuts
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to taste of salt
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2 tablespoons of parsley flakes
Steps to make Dried Basil Pesto:
- In a dry pan toast the pine nuts. Stay with it don't leave them till you are removing from heat.
- Let them cool
- Gather the rest of the ingredients except the olive oil
- Put them in a blender or food processor with the salt, basil, garlic, and cheese. Pulse till all are like a paste.
- Drizzle the olive oil while the blender or food processor is running.
- Refrigerate till needed.
- I hope you enjoy!
Place in food processor with basil flakes, garlic, and parmesan. Pulse, then run full until nuts have broken down. You will get a slightly moist paste. The Best Pesto Sauce With Dried Basil Leaves Recipes on Yummly Fresh Salmon Spaghetti With Pesto Sauce, Whole Wheat Pasta With Edamame And Pesto Sauce, Fusilli Pasta With Zucchini Pesto Sauce And Vesuvius Cherry Tomatoes And Hazelnuts Combine basil, sun-dried tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, lemon juice, garlic, and salt in the bowl of a food processor; pulse until blended.
