Steps to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, homemade pasta & basil pesto. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook homemade pasta & basil pesto using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto:

1. Prepare Pasta
2. Prepare Cake flour
3. Prepare or 4 Egg
4. Take Salt
5. Take Olive oil
6. Make ready Basil pesto
7. Prepare Fresh basil
8. Take Garlic
9. Get Olive oil
10. Take Grated Parmesan cheese
11. Get Pine nuts (or walnuts)
12. Make ready Salt

Pasta is limited on the shelves at the moment, but certain types and flour, and for the most part eggs, seem to be available. That's all you need to make homemade pasta. Making pasta from scratch does take some time, but don't let this dissuade you from making pasta at home. Homemade Pasta is not only fun and easy recipe to make in your own kitchen, but nothing compares to the taste and texture.

Steps to make Homemade Pasta & Basil Pesto:

1. Put all of the pesto ingredients into a food processor or blender. Adjust the taste with salt.
2. Pile flour onto the surface of a large cutting board or the counter and make a well in the center to form a well.
3. Tightly push together the outside of the well so that the flour becomes hard (this is important), and then break the eggs into the center. Add the salt and olive oil.
4. With a fork, slowly stir the eggs and gradually mix in with the flour. Please take care not to break the edges of the volcano. You could also do Steps 2-4 in a bowl.
5. Knead the dough while paying attention to the thickness of the texture. Knead for about 10-15 minutes. Depending on the humidity, the amount of flour needed will change. Knead until it's no longer sticky.
6. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature for 20 minutes (30 minutes in the winter).
7. Dust with flour and then divide into 4 portions. Cover 3 sections with plastic wrap so that they don't dry out.
8. Roll the remaining 1/4 of dough into a thickness of 1-2 mm. Make sure to dust the counter so that the dough doesn't stick.
9. Fold the rolled out dough and cut into your preferred widths. Do the same for the remaining portions of dough.
10. Boil the noodles in salted water for about 2-3 minutes, until al dente. Don't forget to check to make sure they're done!
11. Combine the freshly cooked pasta with some of the pesto. You can optionally pour more pesto on top, too.

Making pasta from scratch does take some time, but don't let this dissuade you from making pasta at home. Homemade Pasta is not only fun and easy recipe to make in your own kitchen, but nothing compares to the taste and texture. Whether you want to knead and cut the dough by hand. Homemade pasta is surprisingly simple to make from scratch—no machine required—and so, so delicious. In the States, when people talk about pasta, they're usually talking about the sauce.

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