I'm looking for recipes using pesto, can you help?
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October 22nd, 2013
I’d love to hear about your favourite recipes using pesto. Today especially I would like a quick and easy recipe using pesto and pasta but I’m interested in any recipe using pesto. Thanks.
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You can make an amazing salad dressing using nothing more than pesto and balsamic vinegar. Yum-meh!
Quick and easy?? Cook your choice of pasta, slop some pesto on there, stir and eat!! (I’m assuming you are talking about ready-made pesto or it won’t be quick and easy:-)) I love pesto!
I love making chicken sandwiches with pesto, sliced tomato and melted mozzarella . mmmmm
Pesto is very good in scrambled eggs.
Keep on tempting me, please.
There’s a vegetarian place near me that makes a kickass sandwich with heirloom tomatoes, avocado, sprouts, pesto mayo, and celery salt. It’s amazing!
You can also make a really half-assed, but delicious, white pizza with pesto. Spread pesto over pizza crust, then put your favorite cheeses on top. Add mushrooms, basil, etc.
I love pesto. I often use it as a coating on salmon fillets or chicken fillets (with chicken, part-cook the meat first, you don’t have to do that with fish).
Use it as a substitute for tomato sauce on a home-made pizza.
Stir a little pesto in with cooked baby potatoes or baby carrots.
Mix it with some olive oil and a dash of balsamic vinegar for a salad dressing.
I also add it to cheese on toast (or grilled cheese sandwiches, if you’re American).
Or just get a handful of breadsticks and eat the stuff straight out the jar. Not that I would do such a thing… (hides empty pesto jar behind my back)
@Kardamom thorough as always, many thanks to you.
And to everyone else, thank you so much for all your suggestions and recommendations : ^)
@downtide If by “grilled cheese sandwiches” you mean cheese on toast, melted under the grill, then NZers are dyed in the wool consumers, it is in our blood : ^)
@Adagio I love how a country that is about as far away from mine as it can possibly be, has so much in common with it. Yes, cheese on toast is exactly what I was thinking. With the pesto spread on the toast before adding the cheese.
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