Pesto

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    10mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    6
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    278

Pesto is more than just a sauce for pasta or meat, use it in your favourite recipes to give them extra flavour, use in sandwiches or spread a layer onto the bread before adding cheese to make cheese on toast even better.

recipe updated 28 Feb. 2026

Ingredients

  • Fresh basil icon
    Fresh basil
    100 g
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    1
  • Olive oil icon
    Olive oil
    120 g
  • Pine nuts icon
    Pine nuts
    2 tablespoons
  • Sea salt icon
    Sea salt
    ½ teaspoon
  • Parmesan cheese icon
    Parmesan cheese
    120 g

Tools

  • kCook icon Food processor attachment

Step preview

  1. Fit the Knife blade to the Food Processor attachment
  2. Add the ingredients into the attachment
  3. Blend until desired consistency is reached - about 30 seconds, speed 5
  4. Use as desired
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