Pesto rosso
Dish: Dip or Sauce
Quantity: 2
Country: Italy
If you are looking for a sauce to give more flavor to your food dishes, the pesto rosso is a good choice, it is an Italian sauce variant of the traditional pesto, it has the same intense flavor but is characterized by its reddish color, this is attributed to the main ingredient of this recipe which is nothing more than dried tomato, it also has basil, olive oil, pine nuts, garlic, salt and parmesan cheese.
Preparing pesto rosso is not complicated at all, it basically consists of processing all the ingredients with the help of a hand blender, thus obtaining a kind of smooth and slightly grainy paste, we invite you to follow our video below where we will explain how to make pesto rosso, a variant of the traditional pesto that is just as tasty and adds a lot of flavor to our food dishes.
Ingredients
- 9 dried tomatoes
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 2 tablespoons of Parmesan cheese
- 10 basil leaves
- 20 g. (0.7 oz) pine nuts
- 100 ml. (3.4 oz) olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
How To Make It
Step 1: We begin the preparation of our pesto sauce, for this, in the glass of a blender add the dried tomatoes, basil leaves, pine nuts, garlic, Parmesan cheese, salt, olive oil, beat for a few minutes or until the ingredients are completely mixed and we have ready our delicious pesto rosso.
Tips To Prepare It
You can substitute the pine nuts with another nut of your choice, such as walnuts.
What can we accompany this recipe with?
Pesto rosso is perfect to add to our meals such as meats, pastas or salads.
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