You see it sold in jars in the pasta sauce aisle and have probably spotted it on restaurant menus starring in everything from grain bowls to sandwiches to steak entrées. But what is pesto ...

Make no mistake -- pistou and pesto aren't the same. While the herby sauces share similar ingredients and uses, there are ...

I taste-tested six store-bought pesto sauces to find out which is the best.; Classico's was too oily for my liking, and Whole Foods' wasn't as cheesy as its contenders.; Rana's sauce from the ...

In a 2011 Saveur piece, Laura Schenone called pesto "the uncooked, economical pride of Liguria" — a sauce born of poverty and a reliance on gathered greens. Its name comes from the Italian word ...

Pesto pasta features tender noodles in a satiny basil pesto sauce. Topped with bright, blistered tomatoes, each bite delivers the perfect balance of savory and sweet. And it couldn’t be easier ...

5. Use a mortar and pestle. Traditional pesto sauce is known to have a grainy texture. While it is smooth, it is also slightly grainy. And a mortar and pestle helps achieve this perfectly.

Countless cookbooks have published recipes for the saucy, cold-weather pesto. Italian basil pesto is an easy, versatile summer sauce I found this recipe for kale pesto, below, buried in The Post ...

Adding a little pasta water to your sauce is the best way to make it stick to every bite of delicious pasta, but you don’t have to limit this trick to marinara. Next time you want pesto pasta ...