Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto
Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, homemade pasta & basil pesto. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have homemade pasta & basil pesto using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto:
  1. Make ready Pasta
  2. Prepare 2 cup Cake flour
  3. Make ready 3 or 4 Egg
  4. Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt
  5. Get 1/2 tsp Olive oil
  6. Prepare Basil pesto
  7. Make ready 2 cup Fresh basil
  8. Prepare 2 clove Garlic
  9. Get 100 ml Olive oil
  10. Get 1/2 cup Grated Parmesan cheese
  11. Prepare 100 ml Pine nuts (or walnuts)
  12. Make ready 1/4 tsp Salt
Steps to make Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto:
  1. Put all of the pesto ingredients into a food processor or blender. Adjust the taste with salt.
  2. Pile flour onto the surface of a large cutting board or the counter and make a well in the center to form a well.
  3. Tightly push together the outside of the well so that the flour becomes hard (this is important), and then break the eggs into the center. Add the salt and olive oil.
  4. With a fork, slowly stir the eggs and gradually mix in with the flour. Please take care not to break the edges of the volcano. You could also do Steps 2-4 in a bowl.
  5. Knead the dough while paying attention to the thickness of the texture. Knead for about 10-15 minutes. Depending on the humidity, the amount of flour needed will change. Knead until it's no longer sticky.
  6. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature for 20 minutes (30 minutes in the winter).
  7. Dust with flour and then divide into 4 portions. Cover 3 sections with plastic wrap so that they don't dry out.
  8. Roll the remaining 1/4 of dough into a thickness of 1-2 mm. Make sure to dust the counter so that the dough doesn't stick.
  9. Fold the rolled out dough and cut into your preferred widths. Do the same for the remaining portions of dough.
  10. Boil the noodles in salted water for about 2-3 minutes, until al dente. Don't forget to check to make sure they're done!
  11. Combine the freshly cooked pasta with some of the pesto. You can optionally pour more pesto on top, too.

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