How to prepare the perfect Pesto Genovese

In this 4th Episode of COOKED I am going to show you how to make the world famous Pesto Genovese

You can buy everything you need in any supermarket, but using better ingredients will yield better taste.

Things to buy:

• Pine Nut
• Piece of real parmesan cheese
• basil leafs (around 3-4 plants, if you buy plants. 200g if you buy them already in a pack)
• Olive Oil
• Salt
• Garlic
  
  The Parmesan cheese will look like this
  
  

Prepare the leafs, get rid of the peduncle, use only the leafs

I always use the best olive oil I can find, as this will dramatically change the taste of the pesto.

Here are the pine nuts

*Roast the pine nuts until they are brown on both sides

Prepare a cheese slicer ( you can use a normal metal one too)

Slice the whole Parmesan cheese (if you use 4 plants or 150g of already harvested basil leafs)

this is perfect! now get them out

You will need a mixer to to shred everything

Get the pine nuts out of the mixer once they look like this

Put the basil leafs in the mixer and add olive oil

Add the complete basil and add more olive oil and mix it, until it looks like this

Add the sliced cheese (whole piece for 200g basil or 4 plants, or half piece for 100g basil / 2plants)

I like to add more cheese, so mine has a bit white color. Add 1/3 teaspoon salt and add garlic (garlic has to be pressed, only use 1 little piece of garlic) mix it again

Get your Pasta ready and enjoy!!!

I have learned this from a friends grandmother in Genova. So this is the real deal

Even in Italy, they fight over how the right Genova style Pesto is made, but I can guarantee your, that this is nothing like anything you have ever eaten before (if you didn't go to Genova) If you buy Pesto in a supermarket, they use cheep cheese and cheep olive-oil. And Pesto you can buy in Supermarkets tastes so awful! And even in Restaurants, I never had a really good pesto before.

Do you have your own pesto hack? Post it in comments, if you have a picture that would be awesome!

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