A Gourmet Pasta Sauce With Pesto

By Catalina Nielsen


When it comes to making pasta, the main factor as to whether the dish will be good or not will actually be the sauce simply because sauces are what gives flavor to the dish. Now one of the best ways to make a gourmet pasta sauce would be to use pesto as a base for making the sauce. Now this recipe is a simple one but at the same time very delicious.

Now for the ingredients, all one would be needing would be some basil leaves, some mushrooms, a few cloves of garlic, and the pesto spread. The first thing that one would need to do would be to chop up the garlic and the mushrooms into smaller pieces. Also, one must make sure to wash the ingredients well.

After the preparations are complete, then one should now prepare his frying pan and put it over the stove to heat it a little bit. The next step would be to pour some olive oil on the pan and make sure that the entire pan is covered. From there, he may put all of the chopped garlic into the pan.

The next thing to do after this would be to saute the garlic until a fragrant aroma comes out and the garlic turns golden brown. Once it becomes golden brown, then one must now put in some of the chopped mushrooms that from before. Just like with the garlic, one must saute the mushrooms for a while.

After doing the mushrooms, then one should now dump in the basil leaves in order to add the herb taste. One thing that amateur cooks should know about basil leaves is that they shrivel up when they are exposed to heat for a very long time. With this in my, one should make sure never to cook the leaves for a long time otherwise the leaves will lose their strong taste.

Once everything has already been mixed together, then one can add some of the pesto spread on to the pan. If he wants his dish to really have a strong taste, then he should put a lot of pesto spread. Conversely, if he would want it to be a little more bland, then he has to put less pesto spread so that the taste will not be as strong.

Once everything has been mixed, then the last part would be to add a little bit of water. When that is done, one may already dump the sauce on to the cooked pasta for it to be mixed. Once they are mixed together, then another portion of olive oil must be added in order to make sure that the pasta is not too dry.

So if one would want a recipe for a gourmet pasta sauce with using pesto, then here is a very simple recipe. If one would want to add a little bit of flavor to the dish, then he may actually add either pine nuts or walnuts on to it. Now if one would want an extra kick to the dish, then he may actually add some chili flakes so that it is a little spicy.




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