Pesto Sauce

This is an easy recipe, which can be used as a “sauce dish ” or a “dipping sauce”. You can use it for the gnocchi recipe that we have in our Cook book, or just to give flavor to a piece of bread or cracker.

Skill Level: Easy

Serving:  1 small bowl

Time to Prepare: 00:18 (for gnocchi) , 00:15 (for the sauce)

 

 

 

Ingredients

• 2 o 3 cups of Basil, washed and chopped
• 3 or 4 Fresh Garlic Cloves, minced
• 2 tablespoon of Nutritional yeast (ideally Trader Joe’s Nutritional Yeast)
• 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil

Tools

• 1 Pyrex bowl
• 1 medium frying pan
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 knife
• 1 cup

Steps to prepare 

1. Add ingredients the basil and the minced garlic into the Pyrex bowl
2. Mix them well.
3. Add the Olive Oil and toss it with the basil and garlic.
4. Add slowly the nutritional yeast and mix it with the other ingredients which they are in the bowl.
5. Mix everything.
6. Serve with the gnocchi or pasta and boun appetito! (Bon appetite in Italian)

 

Notes

• You can also add parmesan cheese before you serve the dish.
• You can use a food processor to mix all the ingredients, however, you need to follow the order> basil, garlic, olive oi and the the nutritional yeast.