How to Make Pesto

hi I'm Angie from Angie Southern Kitchen and today we're going to learn how to make pesto and this is great in the summertime because I grow my own um basil and I have an abundance of it by the end of the summer and it's great to put it up and can it um I start with um there's two garlic cloves in here and I've learned a little trick that I start the machine the food processor running and then drop the the garlic cloes in and it mines it nicely otherwise it gets stuck to the side of the bowl in great big clumps but let can see see how nicely that's minced perfect and then I add this is about 1/3 cup of toasted pine nuts and you got to be careful with pine nuts because they do go rancid really quickly so be careful you can always tell by smelling and tasting them and this is fresh basil this is one container of Basil at the store or about one and a half maybe two cups of basil and you want to put that in and then this is about I'm going to put in about one full cup of grated Parmesan cheese and then I'm going to run it around in the food processor and then I'm going to start adding my olive oil which will emulsify it and I want to add about one cup slowly in a stream into the um pesto mix and then you have your pesto mix again I'm Angie from Angie Southern Kitchen and you just like learned how to make pesto

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