Ingredients for pesto sauce
- 30 basil leaves
- 1 tablespoon sheep cheese
- 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese
- A handful pine nuts
- 4 garlic cloves
- A glass olive oil
- A pinch coarse salt
How to make pesto
Wash the basil leaves, rinse them and put them in a marble mortar. If you don’t have a marble mortar use a ceramic one or any other you have available.
Roast the pine nuts a little bit in a skillet or grill-like pan and add them to the mortar together with the peeled garlic cloves and the coarse salt.
Grind the ingredients of the mortar while you add the two kinds of cheese slowly and alternatively. Grind the mixture until you get a green smooth paste.
Now start adding slowly the olive oil to the pesto sauce. If your mortar is not large enough first put the pesto sauce in a bowl and then add the glass of olive oil. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
Just before you add the pesto sauce to the pesto pasta add a tablespoon of the cooking juice.
The pesto sauce recipe goes very well with trenette or lasagna Italian pasta