what else can you do with pesto?

Question

i have tossed it with noodles, what else can i make with it?

Answer 1

I add it to many things,i love it on scrambled eggs,
thin it with wine vinegar and drizzle on a salad or add to any cold vegetable tray,
a cold white bean salad with sliced onions.
,tomato slices or toss halved baby tomatos with mozzarella balls or feta cheese toss with pesto and spinkle wine vinegar on top.
i adore it in homemade hummus.I make a layerd dip with hummus/ pesto/chopped black olives .repeat the layers(I add the peccarino cheese and pinenuts to the pesto for this)(pesto genovese style)
I have my own herb garden and make fresh pesto .I make the the provence style pistou which doesnt contain pinenuts .ive experimented alot with ways to use it, the only limitation is your imagination.basicly i treat it as though it were an herb paste and add it to things i believe will benefit from the herbs that go in pesto.mainly basil and garlic.
soups ,pasta sauces ,crackers breads all benefit from it.
well now Ive made myself hungry!
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Answer 2

Toss w pasta (or lasagna), toasted pine nuts & top w crumbled Feta cheese. Stir into stews, coat meat, chicken or lamb before roasting, or stuff pesto under the skin of a chicken breast before roasting. Serve as a dip w crackers or crostini. Fold into mashed potatoes. Serve w tomato slices & Balsamic vinegar & ground pepper or in a pita pocket w your favorite fillings, i.e. chicken, fish, shrimp etc. Top a pizza w some pesto & veggies.

Answer 3

Make pesto bread (just mix it into dough), pesto bread sticks, make a dipping sauce out of it, make pesto mayo (mix with equal parts mayo) and spread it on your sandwich, mix with extra butter or olive oil and drizzle it over sauted or roasted vegetables, marinate chicken, fish or even steak in pesto with extra olive oil and/or vinegar to give your every day meats a kick, substitute pesto for pizza sauce/marinara on your homemade pizzas, the possibilities are endless. I love pesto! The homemade kind is usually the best, but I do love DiGiornio's version. Yum!

Answer 4

Mix the pesto with freshly cooked pasta, thinned with cream if desired; use it as the base for pizza - brush onto uncooked dough before adding additional ingredients, or brush pesto on toasted French bread slices and top with slices of Kalamata olives, or paper thin slices of radishes for an easy appetizer.

Answer 5

I use pesto so many different ways. You can spread it on sandwiches (meatball is my favorite), you can thin it out with a little more oil or lemon juice and use as a dip for shrimp, or as a sauce for pizza.

Answer 6

1/2 cup of Balsamic Vinaigrette.
2 teaspoons of Pesto
1/4 cup Olive Oil
Blend those 3 items together
1 tomato sliced
Whole Mozzarella sliced (preferbly buffalo)
layer tomato and mozzarella and then pour the mixture over the tomatos and cheese

Answer 7

Pesto, or Maranara sauce, works well on ravioli, tortillina, and plain pasta noodles or shells.

Answer 8

Personally I use it as a base on all of my homemade pizzas instead of the traditional red sauce. My family loves it this way.

Answer 9

check out allrecipes.com.. type in pesto in the search.. you should get lots of results

Answer 10

It tastes good with crusty bread, on chicken (as like a sauce) and even on salmon and other fish!