Homemade Pesto

Name: Homemade Pesto
Total time: 15
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 4 cups packed fresh basil leaves; 0.25 cup Italian parsley; 2 cloves garlic, peeled and lightly crushed; 1 cup pine nuts; 1.5 cups shredded Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; 0.5 cup extra-virgin olive oil, or more as needed; salt and ground black pepper to taste

Recipe by Peggy from allrecipes.com

Sauce 15 Mins.

Ingredients

6 servings

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4 cups packed fresh basil leaves
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0.25 cup Italian parsley
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2 cloves garlic, peeled and lightly crushed
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1 cup pine nuts

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1.5 cups shredded Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
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1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
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0.5 cup extra-virgin olive oil, or more as needed
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salt and ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

Place basil, Italian parsley, and garlic into a food processor, pulse several times to combine, and process until basil is finely chopped, about 30 seconds. Add pine nuts to basil mixture; process until finely chopped, 30 more seconds. Process Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese into mixture until finely ground.
Mix lemon juice into mixture with the machine running; slowly drizzle olive oil into pesto in the running machine until incorporated and pesto is thoroughly combined. Turn off machine and season pesto to taste with salt and black pepper.