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ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE 

RECIPES WITH PESTO

What means pesto? It is a word used for many recipes, made with  ingredients simply beaten in a mortar and blended. Nowadays a whisk is more useful, but many prefer  to use the mortar, which allows to maintain better the original flavor of each ingredient. Pesto Genovese is the original traditional sauce recipe of Genoa, widespread in all the Liguria. It is a very easy recipe, made with basil, pine seeds and pecorino cheese, perfumed and suitable as sauce for many cold dishes, first courses as trofie, testaroli and also spaghetti. In this table you can find both pesto pasta recipes and other recipes with pesto sauce.

italian octopus salad MAIN COURSE		easy recipe with octopus with pesto genovese sauce
testaroli with pesto Genovese FIRST COURSE		The testaroli of Lunigiana are a magnificent recipe of Pontremoli, during the summer traditionally seasoned with pesto Genovese	5
mandilli de saea with pesto Genovese   FIRST COURSE		Mandilli de saea is  Genoan language and means "silk handkerchiefs", due their silky consistence and thinness. A great harmony of simple ingredients, very difficult to find in other simple recipes	4
potato dumplings with pesto Genovese   FIRST COURSE		a traditional recipe with a light and smoothly taste, widespread in Liguria and Piedmont	3
trofie with pesto Genovese FIRST COURSE		This is a great classic dish of the Ligurian cooking, very good in the hot summer days	2
Pesto Genovese BASIC RECIPE		This cold sauce is  basic for many Ligurian recipes as the "trofie al pesto" and the "mandilli", in addition obviously to spaghetti	1

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