Pesto sauce

[InverseOfNeo]

I want to make pasta (tortellini) with pesto sauce but the pesto is refrigerated. What is the best way to prepare the sauce? I don't want to put cold sauce on hot pasta. TIA.

 

[Brainonska511]

I'd just let it sit out at room temperature while you're waiting for the water to heat up and the pasta to cook. By the time the pasta is done, the pesto should be easy to mix into the pasta since it won't be a cold block and it won't be cold enough to make the pasta cold.

 

[Demo24]

or put the container in a bath of warm water. should heat it up nicely

 

[ballmode]

After you make the sauce, pour some of the boiled water on top of it. The starchy water adds flavor!! Dont overdo it tho

 

[Cattlegod]

2 pots and boil both FTW

 

[CraKaJaX]

Just leave it out before you start boiling water and cooking the tortellinis. It works fine. (And is hella good )

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Just leave it out before you start boiling water and cooking the tortellinis. It works fine. (And is hella good )

This is what I do as well.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: InverseOfNeo
I want to make pasta (tortellini) with pesto sauce but the pesto is refrigerated. What is the best way to prepare the sauce? I don't want to put cold sauce on hot pasta. TIA.

cold sauce on speghetti. mix. microwave for 30 sec ftw?

 

[imported_Tango]

Put the sauce in a large pan or a wok, and warm it up using very low flame. At the same time cook the pasta. When the pasta is ready throw it in the pan and mix it with the sauce, now rising the flame. The correct way to do this would be Sautéing it (max flame, high temperature and make the pasta "jump"). But if you fear you could burn it just use medium temperature and keep mixing the pasta and the sauce all the time with a wooden spoon for a couple of minutes.

 

[imported_Tango]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: InverseOfNeo
I want to make pasta (tortellini) with pesto sauce but the pesto is refrigerated. What is the best way to prepare the sauce? I don't want to put cold sauce on hot pasta. TIA.

cold sauce on speghetti. mix. microwave for 30 sec ftw?

 

[Squisher]

This thread made me remember I supposed to go out and by a bushel of basil today..........duh. Now, I'll have to wait next weekend for the farm market.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Squisher
This thread made me remember I supposed to go out and by a bushel of basil today..........duh. Now, I'll have to wait next weekend for the farm market.

 

[Throckmorton]

Microwave it

 

[JulesMaximus]

Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

It's cheaper to buy from Costco or Sams than make your own. Fresh basil is expensive. Pound of basil will cost you around $7-8 a pound at wholesale. You still have to buy almond or pine nut and parmesan cheese.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

It's cheaper to buy from Costco or Sams than make your own. Fresh basil is expensive. Pound of basil will cost you around $7-8 a pound at wholesale. You still have to buy almond or pine nut and parmesan cheese.

I never said it was cheaper. Only better.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

It's cheaper to buy from Costco or Sams than make your own. Fresh basil is expensive. Pound of basil will cost you around $7-8 a pound at wholesale. You still have to buy almond or pine nut and parmesan cheese.

Where on the gold plated planet do you live? In the middle of the desert a pound of basil goes for about $3. Not at grocery stores but, farmers markets, Trader Joes, specialty shops.

PSA - Anyone putting almonds in Pesto will get their lips ripped off by Little Joey or Big Momma!

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

It's cheaper to buy from Costco or Sams than make your own. Fresh basil is expensive. Pound of basil will cost you around $7-8 a pound at wholesale. You still have to buy almond or pine nut and parmesan cheese.

Where on the gold plated planet do you live? In the middle of the desert a pound of basil goes for about $3. Not at grocery stores but, farmers markets, Trader Joes, specialty shops.

PSA - Anyone putting almonds in Pesto will get their lips ripped off by Little Joey or Big Momma!

Basil is $7-8 a pound at the state farmers market. At a grocery store like Kroger about an ounce or two will run you around $3.

I put oven roasted almonds in my homemade pesto. I did at my restaurant and I do it at my home. You're free to add whatever to yours.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

It's cheaper to buy from Costco or Sams than make your own. Fresh basil is expensive. Pound of basil will cost you around $7-8 a pound at wholesale. You still have to buy almond or pine nut and parmesan cheese.

I never said it was cheaper. Only better.

Better is subjective.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

It's cheaper to buy from Costco or Sams than make your own. Fresh basil is expensive. Pound of basil will cost you around $7-8 a pound at wholesale. You still have to buy almond or pine nut and parmesan cheese.

Where on the gold plated planet do you live? In the middle of the desert a pound of basil goes for about $3. Not at grocery stores but, farmers markets, Trader Joes, specialty shops.

PSA - Anyone putting almonds in Pesto will get their lips ripped off by Little Joey or Big Momma!

Basil is $7-8 a pound at the state farmers market. At a grocery store like Kroger about an ounce or two will run you around $3.

I put oven roasted almonds in my homemade pesto. I did at my restaurant and I do it at my home. You're free to add whatever to yours.

Ah, you're from Georgia! Well, I guess I should be glad you're not making it with mustard greens.

 

[spidey07]

1) cook pasta
2) In small sauce pan warm pesto, season to your liking
3) Over medium low heat, stir/whisk in cream about 1/4 cup at a time to pesto stirring constantly.
4) let pesto cream sauce simmer once emulsified (NOT BOIL) to combine flavors

Serve over pasta. Prefer to add some sausage and mushrooms to this if you have it handy. Sundried tomatoes never hurt either.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Make your own pesto sauce. It's easy and it's far better than any pesto sauce you can buy in a supermarket.

It's cheaper to buy from Costco or Sams than make your own. Fresh basil is expensive. Pound of basil will cost you around $7-8 a pound at wholesale. You still have to buy almond or pine nut and parmesan cheese.

I never said it was cheaper. Only better.

Better is subjective.

Yes, it is subjective but the fact remains that I've never had a store bought pesto that compared at all to the pesto I can make at home with fresh ingredients...and I've tried many of them.

If you think store bought pesto is good then you are sadly lacking in taste.

 

[Squisher]

A couple of years after my wife started working again, she said she couldn't keep up with the garden and I could plant whatever I wanted. The result? 300 square feet of basil and cantaloupe, oh, and one tomato plant for her. I was in pesto heaven.