Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Pasta pesto

Ingredients:

Pesto Sauce
Basilikum leaves 100g
Grano padano cheese 2 tbsp
Cashew nut 10
Pine seeds 1 tbsp
Black pepper seeds 1 tbsp
Garlic 2-3 pearls
Olive oil 4 tbsp
Salt

pasta
Cream 2tbsp
green Chillis 2 
Garlic 1-2 pearls
Italian herb mix

Method:
Boiling the pasta
Take a big vessel with water. Add 1 tsp of olive oil and 1/2 tsp salt.
Bring it to boil.
Add the pasta and allow it to cook.
When it is 3/4 th cooked, remove it from heat, filter it through a sieve and show it under running cold water and drain it.

for the sauce
Give all the ingredients for the sauce in a grinder and grind it. Add the oil in intervals while grinding.

Final mixing
Take a  pan, add 2 tbsp of oilve oil.
Add the well chopped  chilli and garlic and fry for 3 minutes.
Add the herbs mix and cook it.
Add 2 tbsp of the above given sauce and saute.add the boiled pasta and mix well.
Add the cooked pasta and mix well.
Add cream to it and mix well.
Garnish with Pepper powder and Serve hot.

Note:  The sauce can be stored for more than 10 days in an air tight container and should be refrigerated.
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