This simple pesto recipe is the first step in making your new favorite pasta For seasoned cooks and kitchen novices, cookbook author and nutritionist Robin Miller takes it back to basics with ...

Pesto pasta starts with a simple, five ingredient pesto. The other three ingredients make it memorable. Here's how to make the perfect summer dinner.

If you aren’t ready to say goodbye to basil in your pesto just yet, then you can also opt for a blend of mint and basil.

An ingredient list as short as the recipe is easy: You'll just need cherry tomatoes, basil, olive oil, garlic, freshly grated ...

“Pesto” is a thick green sauce that can be customized to one’s taste. It can be used on salads, and sauces for pizza and pasta meals. An accompaniment to fish, beef, chicken and vegetables.

In an 8-inch-square baking dish, spread 1/4 cup of the ricotta, and top with 4 lasagna noodles, overlapping them a little. Spread half of the pesto over the noodles, then half of the ricotta.

Pesto stans might want to drizzle in a little more, but taste as you go. At the very end, I stir in a caprese-like mix of marinated mozzarella, juicy, sweet cherry tomatoes and fresh mint.

Pesto is excellent on about anything. Grilled meats, crostini, drizzled on top of caprese salad, as a sauce for pizza and the list goes on. I can eat it by the spoonful.

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 is excellent on about anything. Grilled meats, crostini, drizzled on top of caprese salad, as a sauce for pizza and the list goes on. I can eat it by the spoonful.

This recipe makes a nice paste version of pesto. Should you want to use it as a pasta sauce or salad dressing, simply add more olive oil. Pesto is excellent on about anything.