A jar of pesto is a permanent fixture in my fridge. Whether you prefer home made or shop bought, the tasty green sauce can bring something special to run-of-the-mill recipes when you just want that extra taste fix.
At home I spread it onto fillets of fish before baking in foil, mix it with creme fraiche then slather onto puff pastry as the basis of a savoury tart and swirl it into home made tomato soup.
When we’re camping there’s nothing finer than a spoon of pesto stirred through hot pasta with a grating of cheese eaten out of mess tins around the fire.
Pesto afficionados Sacla have now come up with a recipe book packed with 70 recipes all using pesto. Some you’ll probably have come up with yourself, but others you may not have.
Personal favourites of mine from the book are:
- Macaroni cheese with tender leeks and pesto
- Potato and pesto gratin
- Tasty tomato pesto-stuffed vine leaves
- Baked papparedelle with pesto, porcini and pancetta
- Pesto veggie burger with quick salsa rossa
- Pesto baked potatoes with melting mozzarella
It’s a hugely family friendly cook book, with crowd-pleasing and comforting meal ideas that are ideal for weeknight suppers. Definitely one to have on the shelf when it’s back to school time and the kids are adjusting to being back in the classroom all day.
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I love adding it into salads 🙂
All my pasta dishes
With spaghetti
Subscribed on you tube as Gillian Holmes
pesto pasta is my favourite
I use it as a quick meal over pasta.
Subscribed on YouTube as Maya Russell
With chicken and pasta!
In pasta
Subscribed on YouTube
Every single pasta dish. I love it
Stirred through pasta or added to pizza topping 🙂
drizzled over my pasta
With gnocchi mmm 🙂
subscribed as charwentzz on youtube 🙂
+1 on google as Charlotte Clark
In Pasta Dishes
Pesto Pizza
I like to keep it simple and use it in my pasta dishes alongside a salad.
Drizzled over salad to make it extra tasty and tangy!
Spreading it on toasties yummy
Pasta dishes
In pasta mmmmmmm!
As well as using for pizza and pasta I use it for an ingredient for Spaghetti Bolognese, Savoury Meatloaf, meatballs and it even tastes good in home made burgers. Thanks. 🙂
I love it in pasta!
With pasta is a must
All my pasta dishes
Pasta is a must:)
On chicken – especially a chicken burger 🙂
With pasta
Added to Light cream cheese plus squeeze of lemon – makes a lovely easy dip.
Chicken Panini Yum Yum
I love using pesto in my pasta dishes
I like to stir pesto into mash
add it to casseroles, slow cooking, soup, pies – basically anything I’m cooking. If I think (at the tme) that it will enhance the flavour anyway, I add it.
I love it on top of cheese on toast – especially the tomato one.
I follow on Google +
with pasta
Spread on a salmon steak which I wrap in foil and bake in the oven then serve with some new potatoes and steamed veg.
poured all over pasta
In pasta dishes
Following Google+
In pasta
I don’t really eat it but my husband loves it. He has it with spaghetti with some grated cheese melted in!
With chicken pasta and cheese.yum yum.
I like to add to pasta
With gnocci and tomato
I add it to all my pasta dishes
In pasta and chicken dishes.
I am subscribed on Youtbe as itsalit.
I follow on Google Plus.
With chicken, pasta and cream
I love it stirred into pasta, especially with salmon, cherry tomatoes and black olives!
Have subscribed by email
With Pasta
love it in pasta – even made in the pasta dough for home made ravoli
stirred into hot pasta
Pasta is yummy, but maybe some pesto muffins?
subscribed to youtube 🙂
following on google+
i love keeping it simple and stirring it into my pasta, also love it on top of houmous
it gets used in my pasta dishes
in a lasagne with butternut squash, spinach and walnuts
simply with pasta and some grated cheese
Pasta and salads
Subscribed to YouTube – Mickie Bull
Pasta dishes
A simple pasta salad with pesto, chicken and olives.
with pasta
I love adding it to pasta! 🙂
With pasta
subscribed
Chicken panini!! xx
With pasta 🙂
I stir it in my pasta
Mixed with gnochhi
stirred into spaghetti
Not very exciting of me I know, but I like it just stirred through pasta. And served with salad.
Lots of pasta recipes
I stir pesto into cream cheese and then add pasta! Yummy!
In Pasta dishes
Subscribed on Youtube as Alice Hindley
Simply stirred through gnocchi.
Pesto veggie burger with quick salsa rossa (I love it)
I love pesto on crackers with lighty melted mozzarella cheese
Subscribed on youtube as JudeVFR400
Stirred in with pasta – a quick and tasty meal
I simply add it to plain pasta for a quick meal
Spread on a puff pastry tart!
Subscribed on you tube!
With pasta
with pasta and vegetables for a quick healthy dinner
I make cheese, tomato and avocado tarts and I use pesto with this – tastes delicious!
I add it to pasta dishes
On pasta!
spread on puff pastry, topped with grated mozarella and cherry tomatoes then baked
I love it on pasta!
Pesto pasta 🙂
With pasta
With pasta and mozzarella
Stuffed inside a chicken breast with mozzarella, wrapped with Parma ham and then roasted in the oven.
With pasta
Stirred in pasta or in blobs on a pizza
On a burger 🙂
To my pasta dishes
On grilled Salmon fillets
chicken stuffed with pesto and cheese
In pasta sauce.