Our top 10 ways to use homemade pesto
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| July 28, 2010
In Cooking for One or Two, Kitchen Basics
Featured Recipe: Pesto Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes
If you’ve made our Classic Basil Pesto (and we surely hope you have!), you’re going to want some nifty ways to use it. First on our list would be this quick and easy Pesto Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes.
Here are our top 10 ways to use what we like to call Green Gold:
1. Stir 2 tablespoons into jarred marinara sauce. Serve over spaghetti.
2. Stir 1 tablespoon into scrambled eggs, just before serving.
3. Spread on warm focaccia and serve.
4. Spoon into mushroom caps, sprinkle with Parm and bake. Appetizer heaven!
5. Mix into fat-free cottage cheese, to taste, and serve atop sliced tomatoes.
6. Making lasagna? Mix pesto with the ricotta cheese and egg for a fresh flavor.
7. Mix with softened butter and serve with baked potatoes or corn.
8. Add a tablespoon to Italian vinaigrette for a different spin.
9. Garnish bowls of minestrone soup with 1 teaspoon each.
10. Today’s easy Pesto Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes.
So what are we forgetting?!
Comments
From Debt Help - July 28, 2010
Great article!and very informative and the ways you mentioned are awesomely good and just noted down all.
From Melissa B. - July 28, 2010
?Bev's Pesto Torte? I cannot find the recipe on your website, but I copied out of my local newspaper into my electronic recipe box
From Beverly Mills - July 29, 2010
Hi Melissa. Are you sure it was my recipe? I don't recall ever doing a pesto torte! Can you give any details to jog my memory?
From maria - July 29, 2010
thanks for stopping by not your traditional rice kirspies, if you love the combo beverly, I made a peanut butter pie tonight with a chocolate crust. Look for it this weekend!! Also Just made some fresh pesto today so good timing
From Beverly Mills - August 03, 2010
From Janet Constantino of Cary, NC, via email: One tip to keep pesto from turning brown. I have blanched the basil leaves prior to making pesto and the results are fantastic. Green as it was picked and looks more attractive. It does not have any affect on taste as far as I can tell by my palate or my husband's. Try it!
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From Beverly Mills - July 28, 2010
Fish....I think we're forgetting fish?