Creamy garlic pesto sauce. Serve this delicious sauce over your favorite pasta for a quick, delectable meal. Do NOT substitute half-and-half for the heavy cream if you want a thick sauce. If half-and-half is used, the sauce will only be half as thick as it would if heavy cream.
You can't get pesto this good from a jar…unless you put it there yourself, that is.
Store-bought renditions don't hold a candle to this real-deal (seriously easy) Creamy Pesto Sauce!
It's rich, velvety smooth and packed with fresh basil, Parmesan cheese, garlic, and tons of flavor.
You can have Creamy garlic pesto sauce using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Creamy garlic pesto sauce
- Prepare 2 cup of basil (not chopped yet).
- Prepare 1/4 cup of crushed walnuts or pine nuts.
- It's 4 clove of roasted garlic.
- It's 2 tbsp of butter.
- You need 2 tbsp of olive oil.
- You need 1/4 cup of heavy cream or half and half.
- You need 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese.
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Creamy garlic pesto sauce step by step
- preheat oven to 400. cut about a half inch off the top of a head of garlic, drizzle in a dash of olive oil, wrap in tinfoil, and bake for 40 minutes..
- while garlic is roasting, you can start the water boiling for the pasta. chop basil into very small pieces and crush nuts..
- use a medium skillet to add together all the ingredients. simmer for ten minutes.
- take garlic out of the oven and crush it and add to sauce.
- turn heat to medium for 5 minutes, add pasta during this time..
The flavorful sauce infuses every single bite of this fail-proof. All ingredients combine perfectly with each other, delicious and so creamy! Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. CREAMY BASIL PESTO SAUCE RECIPE INGREDIENTS: To make this creamy basil pesto recipe, you will need: Basil: Fresh basil is the star here so pick the best looking leave you can find Parsley: I used flat leaf parsley Garlic: Because garlic is life Parmigiano Reggiano cheese: It's the real deal parmesan cheese but if you can't find it just use a cheese labeled as "Parmesan" Instructions.