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Blender pesto
pesto-basic · sauce · Italian
About
A pounded or blended basil sauce with oil, cheese, garlic, and nuts. Used as a pasta component and finishing sauce.
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Associated with Ligurian pesto traditions. Exact historical recipes and PDO debates are outside this teaching sketch.
Sources
- General pesto teaching
Skill ladder
- L1 Blender pesto · this page
- L2 Classic pesto alla genovese
- L3 Mortar pesto with blanched basil
Uses
- Basil 50 g
- Pine nuts 20 g
- Garlic 5 g
- Parmigiano-Reggiano 50 g
- Extra-virgin olive oil 100 g
- Salt 2 g
Preparations used
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Used in
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Full raw-ingredient roll-up
Secondary view: every leaf ingredient with its path.
- 100.0 g Extra-virgin olive oilpath pesto-basic → extra-virgin-olive-oil
- 50.0 g Basilpath pesto-basic → basil
- 50.0 g Parmigiano-Reggianopath pesto-basic → parmigiano
- 20.0 g Pine nutspath pesto-basic → pine-nut
- 5.0 g Garlicpath pesto-basic → garlic
- 2.0 g Saltpath pesto-basic → salt