Pasta with pesto

The pesto sauce is an emulsion of olive oil and basil. You can do it with other aromatics herbs as parsley. The traditional Italian pesto of Genoa only has basil, garlic, Parmesan cheese, salt and olive oil. This is the traditional recipe made in the mortar, emulsifying all the ingredients during 30 minutes. The result is really delicious.


Ingredients (1 person):
10 leaf of basil
The half of a clove garlic half
Olive oil
1 table spoon of Parmesan cheese
Salt

The first thing you have to do is to wash the basil and to dry it. Then put it in the mortar and start to crush it. It has to finish like a paste of basil.

Now is the moment to add the garlic and mix it with the basil. Then put olive oil and stir it doing circles until all the ingredients start to create a homogenize paste. Put salt.

Finally you have to add Parmesan cheese. Now boil water in a pot. Add salt and cooked the pasta. Mix the pasta with the pesto and serve it.