pesto
Basil pine sauce
Pesto is an uncooked sauce of crushed basil, garlic, pine nuts, Parmesan cheese, and olive oil, traditionally served with pasta.
The name comes from the Italian for "pounded," describing how the ingredients are ground together, traditionally with mortar and pestle.
Variations substitute other greens or nuts: sun-dried tomato pesto, arugula pesto, walnut pesto.
basil
Fragrant culinary leaf
- olive oilFruit-pressed culinary fat
- pine nutsEdible conifer seeds
- parmesanGranular Italian grating cheese
garlic · sauce · verdant · herbaceous · mortar · spread · drizzle · fresh · aromatic · homemade
- dressingsranch, balsamic, vinaigrette, blue cheese, thousand island
- pasta saucesmarinara, alfredo, bolognese, arrabbiata, carbonara
- pastestahini, harissa, gochujang, sambal, sofrito
- saucesgravy, ketchup, mustard, barbecue sauce, BBQ sauce
- basil saucesbasil oil
- Northwest ItalyPiedmont, Lombardy, Liguria, Turin, Milan
sauce color/base ingredient
pestomarinara
Seasoned tomato sauce
tomato sauce · red sauce · pomodoro · arrabbiata · bolognese
- mortar and pestleManual crushing implements
- pesto sauce
- pestle and mortarVessel and club for pulverizing
- pesto pastaNoodles in basil-garlic sauce
- pesto pizzaPie with herbed green sauce
- basil pestoCrushed herb sauce