To ask what you do with pesto?!

[Freco010]

I'm new to pesto and I need to know what to do with it please!

If you don't like pesto, try making it yourself! It is easy (but expensive) to make. I really hated shop bought ones but home made is delicious!

It's nice with salmon - put a slice of mozzarella on top.of a salmon fillet, then a blob of pesto, then a sundried tomato, before baking in the oven.

It's delicious in a cheese toastie!

We use Pesto a lot. The kids love it stirred into pasta with tuna stirred through and sprinkled with cheese. Sometimes I mix a green and red pesto together and stir that through. I add a jar to a basic homemade tomato pasta sauce. I've also added it to bolognese for a richer flavour. Sometimes we put it on cheese sandwiches.

i put it on pizza... omg delish!!

Yum! Thanks everyone I know what I'm having for lunch today

I use it on pizza instead of tomato sauce, with prawnand mushroom topping.

Pasta pesto is a weekly favourite in my house. Chopped bacon medallions, garlic, red onion, any chopped veg you fancy (I normally do mange tout, pepper..). Once it's all fried off, add a jar of red pesto (Tesco half fat one is nice) and half a pot of single elmlea, mix all together and then mix in with cooked fusilli pasta. We have a bag of rocket with it. Yum!

We use on pizza as a base instead of tomato sauce.

Also lovely with lamb cutlets and green beans and new potatoes.

I make my own with cashew nuts (pine nuts so expensive) and freeze in pots.

Take meat intended for pan.

Smear pesto (red or green) on plate.

Slap meat around plate. Turn. Slap around some more.

Remember the breadcrumbs/polenta. Discover you forgot to buy either. Attack packets of crackers nobody likes, hence long term existence in cupboard. Pour crumbs (and occasional chunks) of post bashing crackers on new plate.

Slap pesto covered meat around plate of crumbs. Turn and slap some more.

Hunt frying pan. Exhibit extreme lack of patience while frying pan heats. Plonk meat in pan. Eye suspiciously. Turn. More eyeing suspiciously.

Try to guess if cooked through.

Give up. Remove one, cut in thickest part to check for pink. Put back and sulk that one lump of meat looks mangled before it even hits the plate.

Repeat a few times until all lumps of meat look like the cat got at them due to pinkness checking.

Serve.

Bonafide Italian recipe.

Except MIL's looked perfect, rather than subject to mangling by cat.

also nice with risotto

Red or white pesto....?

anyhow, pesto is already "pasta sauce" as somebody else already told you.

You can just mix it under noodles, use it as a bread spread, put it on potatoes.... it's super versatile:)

Home made pesto is great. But unless you grow your own basil it's probably going to be rather expensive....

*red or green pesto.

Both are delicious, imo

Lay chicken breasts in a dish, spread pesto over the top, cover with sliced tomatoes, grated cheese (I mix cheddar , mozzarella and Parmesan) and bake in the oven for about 25 mins. Serve with new potatoes and green beans

Salmon fillet with pesto on top wrapped in foil and put in oven/on BBQ. Spread on puff pastry with cherry tomatoes and feta and bake. With pasta.

I mix it with mayonnaise and add it to chicken sandwiches! Scrumptious!

I made pesto and cheese scones. They were weirdly delicious

I mix it with double cream and add to linguine to make a creamy sauce

Try this with half-fat creme fraiche for a lower fat version.

Spunky, you can actually get 'white' pesto (although in reality it's pale green) - it's made with artichokes and is lovely.

These look yummy!

Spread all over one side of a soft tortilla with a little tomato paste. Then I sprinkle grated cheese over the top and put under the grill for a few mins. Makes a sort of tasty supper thin Pizza thingy.

Stir it in to pasta, add cheese. Best quick meal ever.

• add to pasta cooked with very thinly sliced new pots and some green beans (last few mins)
• spread in chicken breast, wrap with Parma ham slice, bake
• ditto above with cod loin
• make Delia's pesto rice salad]
• make [[http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1521/summerinwinter-chicken summer in winter chicken

Alternative sauce for pizza?

Make a dough or buy a pizza base.
Put on pesto.
Add mozzarella, chicken and tomatoes and peppers.

Yummy pizza

pesto rice salad

Eat it out of the jar