Recipe Details

Pesto Sauce

Number of Servings: 8

Serving Size: 1 tablespoon

Pesto sauce has so many wonderful uses. It is always terrific tossed with pasta, but you can also use it as a dressing for mozzarella and tomato salad, mix it with chicken and vegetables for chicken salad, or serve it as a topping for poached fish or grilled chicken breasts, or as a spread instead of garlic butter on bread.

A little bit of pesto goes a long way -- use this "green gold" sparingly. Pesto freezes well, so make an extra batch to enjoy later. For convenient ready-to-use portions, freeze the pesto in ice cube trays. Just pop out the amount you need and bring it to room temperature before serving.

Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition

Name:	Amount:
loosely packed basil leaves	1 cup
garlic	2 ea
pine nuts	2 Tbsp
Parmesan cheese, grated	2 Tbsp
fresh ground black pepper	0.25 tsp
extra-virgin olive oil	2 Tbsp

Combine all the ingredients except the oil in the food processor or blender. Process until almost smooth.

Pour the oil through the feed tube with the processor or blender running at the slowest speed, and process until blended.

Nutritional Information (per serving)

Calories 52

Calories from Fat 46

Total Fat 5g

Saturated Fat 1g

Cholesterol 1mg

Sodium 28mg

Potassium n/a

Carbohydrates 1g

Dietary Fiber 0g

Sugars 0g

Protein 1g

Vitamin A n/a

Vitamin C n/a

Calcium n/a

Iron n/a

Folic Acid n/a

Dietary Exchange 1 Fat, monounsaturated

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