do you use pesto sauce cold or heat it like marinara?

Answer 1

Honestly don't like pesto sauce

Answer 2

Buitoni Pesto

Answer 3

You can mix in with cold pasta and some veg, and a little mayo for a nice summer salad, or add it to hot cooked pasta for a delicious pasta dish, my kids like it when i make an Alfredo sauce, and add it to that. You have a pesto cream sauce that is to die for.
We also served it over grilled chicken"pesto Chicken" in some restaurants I have worked in. You don not need to heat the pesto, just add it. If it gets to hot it will get dark.

Answer 4

If you heat pesto, you cook the basil and it won't taste like pesto any longer. If you're adding it to pasta, do so with a little of the cooking water, while the pasta is still hot. You may want to add a little more olive oil to make it all lubricated. The pesto will heat up as you toss it with the pasta.

Answer 5

You can do both but the original is used cold,Minestrone genoveso uses Pesto as an ingridient.This is a website with a few different Pesto recipes
http://hugs.org/pestodex.shtml

Answer 6

Heat it a little. My thought is that you should use much less pesto than any other type of sauce, so piping hot pasta should heat up the pesto.

Don't overheat, or the basil will lose some aroma.

Answer 7

I let it go to room temperature, after taking it out of the freezer / refrigerator. Then I just let the heat of the spaghetti or whatever heat up the pesto sauce.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

it depends...you can add it to your favourite plain pasta or fried shrimp DURING the cooking process or use it as a cold dipping sauce, but i would not heat it up by itself.
anyway, when you cook it with something, make sure you don't heat the pesto too long, because the herbs (basil) will become bitter.
(it's perfect as a marinade for stir-fry food!)

Answer 10

either one... you can use it cold on sandwiches (mix it with an equal amount of mayo for a creamy pesto) or heat it a little and put it over pasta and veggies.

Answer 11

I don't cook it, but I put it on hot pasta and let the pasta heat it through.