{"id":2658,"date":"2016-07-12T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2018-04-30T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T00:36:45","slug":"five-minute-basil-pesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/five-minute-basil-pesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minute Basil Pesto."},"content":{"rendered":"

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My basil plant is still alive! I haven’t been doing much cooking (because baby snuggles), so\u00a0I needed to harvest and use a bunch of basil. Pesto for the no-cook, five-ingredient, five-minute win!<\/p>\n

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I had a block of Parmesan cheese, so I grated it in the food processor first and then dumped it out to measure it. If you have grated Parmesan already, you can skip that step! Toss in pine nuts, a clove of garlic, and salt and process to chop them together. Add the basil and Parmesan cheese, then stream in the olive oil as you pulse it together.<\/p>\n

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This Cuisinart food processor was my mom’s, and it’s like 30 years old. Still going strong. That’s my baby’s little hand ready to push All The Buttons, except now she’s not my actual baby, she’s my middle baby!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And there you have it! Beautiful, fresh, salty, garlicky, pungent basil pesto. Please have a loaf of crusty bread available for taste testing purposes! I love to chunk up a loaf of airy, chewy ciabatta and dip it straight into a bowl of pesto, or toast up slices of baguette and smear it on top like butter. Or you can go all out and make this super easy no-knead bread<\/a> to pair with your pesto! Basically, you can’t go wrong in the bread + pesto department.<\/p>\n

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I’m still grieving the fact that I had no bread and had to do my salt-level taste test with week-old pita. (It was actually still delicious, which speaks to the magical powers of basil + garlic + Parmesan + olive oil.) Later this week (um, ha, or sometime in the future – 3-week-olds are unpredictable bosses, man) I’ll share our favorite pesto pasta<\/a>, and some other pesto inspiration<\/a>!<\/p>\nPrint<\/a>

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