Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, homemade pasta & basil pesto. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade pasta & basil pesto using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto:

1. Take Pasta
2. Prepare Cake flour
3. Get or 4 Egg
4. Prepare Salt
5. Take Olive oil
6. Make ready Basil pesto
7. Get Fresh basil
8. Get Garlic
9. Get Olive oil
10. Get Grated Parmesan cheese
11. Make ready Pine nuts (or walnuts)
12. Get Salt

Pasta is limited on the shelves at the moment, but certain types and flour, and for the most part eggs, seem to be available. That's all you need to make homemade pasta. Making pasta from scratch does take some time, but don't let this dissuade you from making pasta at home. Homemade Pasta is not only fun and easy recipe to make in your own kitchen, but nothing compares to the taste and texture.

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.

Making pasta from scratch does take some time, but don't let this dissuade you from making pasta at home. Homemade Pasta is not only fun and easy recipe to make in your own kitchen, but nothing compares to the taste and texture. Whether you want to knead and cut the dough by hand. Homemade pasta is surprisingly simple to make from scratch—no machine required—and so, so delicious. In the States, when people talk about pasta, they're usually talking about the sauce.

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