Basic Pesto Recipe
Recipe Ingredients
1 cup fresh basil
1/4 cup pine nuts
3 garlic cloves
1/2 cup olive oil (or as needed)
3 tbsp heavy cream
Recipe Preparation
In a blender place the basil, pine nuts, and garlic. Pure them so
that they are smooth. With the blender running on low, slowly
dribble in enough of the olive oil until a pured consistency is
achieved (do not add too much oil). Add the heavy cream and Parmesan
cheese, and stir them in.
Servings: 1
Back to Ethnic Recipes
Food Tips of the Week
Diet tipsIf you enjoy eating, but want to lose weight and also enhance your overall well-being, without doubt you ought to start a carefully calculated healthy dietary regime. In theory, this ought to take in 5 measures of grains and vegetables on a daily basis and also embrace the right blend of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
The case against reduced carbohydrate diets
Its all the rage, but it is truly safe and healthy for you?
Most of the negative side effects observed, such as persistent tiredness, stomach upsets, or bad headaches seem to be just temporary, but critics contend that low carb diets are not without serious long term side effects.
Reducing carbs may mean missing out on necessary nutrients from healthy carbohydrate foods which should be part of any sensible diet, particularly those that we get from grains, vegetables and fruits.
Foods containing lycopene
(includes apricots, red peppers & baby jackfruit)
Lycopene is a natural compound and one of the same family of phytochemicals as carotene. Lycopene is behind the red color of quite a few fruits and vegetables.
Usefully, unlike numerous nutritional compounds, it does not become less effective if cooked but is observably increased in efficacy by the cooking process.
. Lycoprene's main advantage is that it works as an antioxidant and is believed to be of use in the fight to lower the chances of developing cancer.
Lycopene is the strongest quencher of singlet oxygen, which is correlated with skin aging. It is also thought to impede the progression of diseases affecting arterial blood vessels.
Basic Pesto Recipe from the Recipes-4U Collection
You no longer need to spend money on overpriced recipe cookery books or high meals out in over-priced dining establishments, all you have to do is discover and print out the recipe that meets your requirements and start preparing good food to delight your family in the comfort of your own kitchen
|
