Pesto sauce is from Persia, in translation into Russian its name means "press", "trample down". This sauce has preparation many options, but always has green color because surely basil leaves enter it.
Preparation of products for sauce
As a rule, the main ingredients are always identical to pesto sauce. One of the main products of this sauce - a basil. Most often take leaves of a green basil, than red. The red basil has too sharp aroma which can spoil a dish smell.
Sauce also doesn't do without parmesan. Many experiment, replacing parmesan with other cheeses: smetankovy or suluguni. Sometimes add also cedar or walnuts, vegetable oil, mint, a ramson.
Classical recipe песто
This recipe of pesto sauce approaches fish, meat and just spaghetti. It impacts to a dish a peculiar unique taste. For preparation it is required: - lemon half juice; - 100 ml of olive oil; - 50 g cedar or walnuts; - 50 g of cheese; - 3 garlic gloves; - basil bunch. PrigotovlenieSnachal it is necessary to prepare products. Peel garlic, cut it on small pieces. Wash out, dry up and to small cut basilicas. Grate cheese. Now it is necessary to mix ingredients and to pound them in a mortar. Many hostesses for this purpose use the blender or the electromeat grinder, but sauce turns out much more tasty if to prepare it as our ancestors prepared. It is necessary to pound ingredients in a mortar not all at once. It is necessary to add products gradually. At the end of preparation to fill sauce with vegetable or olive oil. As a result homogeneous mass has to turn out. After to add salt and lemon sauce. It is possible to give песто not only with fish or meat dishes, but also with simple toasts. This sauce can be stored in the freezer in a glass jar.
The recipe песто with tomatoes
This sauce is ideal for pizza or paste and also for crackers and toasts. For its preparation it is possible to take both dried, and fresh tomatoes. Anyway they need to be cut or crushed small via the meat grinder. After that to fry in a frying pan in a small amount of vegetable oil. For preparation of pesto sauce with tomatoes it is required: - pepper, salt to taste; - 125 g of olive oil; - 1 tablespoons of balsam vinegar; - 50 g of grated parmesan; - 30 g of pine or walnut fried nuts; - 6-8 fresh tomatoes; - 3 garlic gloves; - 125 g of cheese mozzarella. PrigotovlenieSnachal it is necessary to slice thin cheese and tomatoes. Then it is necessary to fry tomatoes, to spread out a grated cheese on plates, to wash out and separate a basil from stalks. In the mixer or in a mortar to make puree of leaflets of a basil, garlic and cheese. After to add nutlets, salt, pepper, olive oil, fresh or dried tomatoes. Sauce is served to a table unusually. It is displayed on basil leaflets.