Pesto

I love pesto. Pour some over pasta for a quick and delicious meal. Add it as a topping on sliced tomatoes. I like to make a Pesto Pizza.

Ingredients
1 garlic clove, peeled
Salt
1/4 cup pine nuts, lightly toasted
1 bunch Basil, about 1 lightly packed cup
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

Toast the pine nuts in a iron skillet.













In a mortar and pestle, pound the garlic and salt into a paste.
Add pine nuts and continue to pound.
Transfer the garlic, salt and pine nuts to a small glass container in which you will store your pesto.





























Pick the leaves from the basil and add to the mortar. Pound the basil into a paste. Return the pounded pine nuts to the mortar. Pound the leaves and pine nut mixture together. Transfer everything back to your glass container and add olive oil.

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