cookinero.com

Traditional Pesto sauce, which originated in Italy, is made from basil and pine nuts. But modern European cuisine provides for various variations of the sauce. For example, you can make Pesto sauce with mushrooms. By the way, Pesto is not only in Italian cuisine. This popular sauce has analogues in other countries. Austrians prepare Pesto with pumpkin seeds. Germans replace basil with wild garlic.

Step 1

Make the mushroom pesto. Pour olive oil into a frying pan and add chopped onion and garlic. Fry until golden brown, add green onion. Continue frying for another 1 minute. Put mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and chilli peppers into the pan. Simmer the pesto for 5 minutes. Add walnuts and parsley, pour in 50 ml of water, add salt. Cook for another 3 minutes. Turn off the heat and cool. Transfer the sauce to a blender bowl and mix until puree consistency.