Homemade Best-O Pesto Ever recipe

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Ingredients

¼ cup pine nuts
¼ cup almonds
3 cloves garlic
4 cups loosely packed fresh basil
1 ¼ cups olive oil, or more as needed
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper

Nutrition Info

177.6 calories
carbohydrate: 1.3 g
cholesterol: : -
fat: 19.2 g
fiber: 0.6 g
protein: 1.4 g
saturatedFat: 2.6 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 146.4 mg
sugar: 0.2 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Pulse pine nuts, almonds, and garlic in a food processor for about 20 seconds. Add basil, 1 cup olive oil, salt, and pepper. Blend for about 1 minute. Add additional olive oil until desired consistency is reached.

Recipe Yield

2 cups

Recipe Note

In all seriousness, this homemade pesto recipe has changed my level of 'chefworthiness' in the eyes of friends and family. My husband swears I could make millions off of just this recipe! Of course I am still just a wannabe cook…but this simple pesto recipe could fool the best of them! The simplicity and the quality of the ingredients is what makes it so fantastic.

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