Saturday, 5 July 2025

Guido's Nonna's recipe: Linguine with Pesto alla Genovese

 

Guido's Nonna's Recipe: 

Linguine with Pesto alla Genovese - Serves  6

Ingredients: 500 g (1 packet) of linguine pasta (La Molisana brand is recommended).

For the sauce: 1 large bunch of fresh basil leaves, 1/3 of a clove of garlic, handful of pine-nuts, 60 g of Grana Padano cheese, extra virgin olive oil, pinch of salt.


Method: (using a blender): To prepare pesto, put basil leaves, pine-nuts, Grana Padano and Pecorino cheese, 1/3 of a clove of garlic and a  pinch of salt into the blender with a little extra virgin olive oil. Blend until smooth (or chunky, if preferred), then add more olive oil.


Cook Linguine aldente, put it back in the pot after draining and mix in with sauce and a little butter. Stir all together. Serve immediately.

Buon appetito!



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yum! Thx. LOVE basil ♥️

Anonymous said...

Love the pesto recipe! Trying. Next recipe this week

Guido said...

We love Basil too. So fresh and it adds so much flavour to salads and more!

Guido said...

So pleased you tried Guido's Pesto recipe. I am sure it will turned out well. It's a classic one and so versatile too.