How to Make Basil and Sun-dried Tomato Pesto | Simple and Zesty

Basil and Sun-dried Tomato Pesto

Makes: 2 ½ Cups

Ingredients:
3 C fresh basil, firmly packed (approx. 3 ounces)
8.5-ounce jar sun-dried tomatoes in oil
1 C extra virgin olive oil
½ C grated parmesan cheese
½ C walnuts
3 cloves garlic, peeled
1 T balsamic vinegar
Pinch of kosher salt

This sauce takes just minutes to make, and it’s packed with flavor and good nutrients!

Add your garlic, sun-dried tomatoes in their oil, and walnuts to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse till ingredients come together. Next, add in all the basil and pulse till combined.

Finally, add in the parmesan and balsamic vinegar with a pinch of kosher salt. Put the cover on the food processor. Remove the small opening on the top and slowly stream in your olive oil while the processor is running. Your sauce is now complete. Enjoy!

This is great served with pasta, over grilled meat or on bruschetta.

Note: This freezes well! Just place in a freezer safe container and top with a layer of extra virgin olive oil.

I love pesto and you can make it in so many varieties it’s so healthy please don’t buy it from a job I’m going to show you how easy it is to make your own So today we’re going to do a basil and sundried tomato pesto yummy I’m going to

Start this is eight2 O jar of sundried tomatoes in the olive oil it’s all going in I have a half a cup of walnuts I love walnuts all this stuff is full of antioxidants delicious we got the tomatoes that have vitamin C and oxidants yummy I’ve got three garlic

Cloves going in I’m just going to put the cover on top and just give this a little J all right so here we go all right just to get it started this is three cups of Basil this is firmly packed when you when you put

It I mean like stuff it in the cup I love fresh basil I love the smell of it it’s so good so this this time of year in Texas we’re not really growing this in the garden but I did get this at the local grocery store it’s organic it was

Under $4 for 3 oz which came to a little bit around three cups of the basil I think it’s a bgin I don’t know what it cost actually to buy a jar of pesto cuz I don’t do it but this is going to make lots I mean this is going to make for

Multi multiple meals and it freezes so well okay so again just kind of because I’m really really stuff in this food processor cover back on oh yeah okay okay cool whoops all right so now we’re just going to add the remaining ingredients I love me some Parmesan cheese so this is some

Grated Parmesan 1/2 cup going in this is 1 tbspoon of balsamic vinegar I love this because it just gives it a a little hm what is that in there a little kind of Tang the parmesan is salty but I’m still going to add a little pinch of

Salt here get this okay going in and we can always add to it okay C is going back on and then all I’m going to do I’m going to take off this little part of the food processor and then I’m going to slowly as this fuzzes add my olive oil this is

One cup I’m going to see if if we need it all um add in you can make it as thick or as thin as you like okay I’m using it Off I wish you could smell this amazing you saw how easy that was right you do not need to buy this in a J look at that okay just going to take this out here oh my gosh this is so yummy I could eat like that just on a piece of

Toasted bread but this would be great on any kind of pasta this would be great on chicken I mean use your imagination so good and so healthy we get vitamin K in here we’ve got vitamin C’s in there we’ve got some omegas from the walnuts tons of antioxidants with the olive

Oil it’s going to keep your skin looking good all right pesto look at that sundried tomato and basil pesto one thing if you’re going to freeze this what I recommend is actually putting a layer of olive oil on top just a little bit of olive oil on top that

Will just keep things from oxidizing just like that and you could also with this you could you know put this in like ice cube tray some people like to do that if they’re just using small amounts of it or you could you know put this in smaller batches either

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