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Pesto: The Modern Mother Sauce
More Than 90 Inventive Recipes That Start with Homemade Pestos
Leslie Lennox5
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Most people are familiar with classic Italian pesto, a green sauce made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, Parmigiano-Reggiano, salt, and olive oil. But Leslie Lennox, founder of the award-winning artisanal pesto company Hope's Gardens, shows us that pesto need not be limited to its original ingredients-and that creative pestos can serve as building blocks for all manner of flavorful dishes, just like any good "mother sauce."
In Pesto: The Modern Mother Sauce, Lennox introduces readers to a new way to think about pesto. In the right proportion, almost any combination of plants, garlic, nuts, cheese, seasoning, and oil can make a delicious sauce-especially when you're using what's on hand, what's local, and what's in season.
Lennox offers up several favorite pesto recipes, and then takes these simple sauces a step further. They serve as the building blocks for 97 kitchen-tested recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and more. From risotto and ramen to chicken fajitas and swordfish kebabs, everything tastes better with pesto!
In Pesto: The Modern Mother Sauce, Lennox introduces readers to a new way to think about pesto. In the right proportion, almost any combination of plants, garlic, nuts, cheese, seasoning, and oil can make a delicious sauce-especially when you're using what's on hand, what's local, and what's in season.
Lennox offers up several favorite pesto recipes, and then takes these simple sauces a step further. They serve as the building blocks for 97 kitchen-tested recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and more. From risotto and ramen to chicken fajitas and swordfish kebabs, everything tastes better with pesto!
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Reviews
"I'm so excited to cook my way through Leslie's book. Traditional pesto was one of the first things I taught myself how to make as 'an adult.' It's time to expand my pesto repertoire past basil, and it's lovely to have this beautiful book as a guide."
Kerry Diamond, editorial director of Cherry Bombe
"Pesto is the only condiment I prefer to make at home, and now with Pesto, I'm inspired to make it not only differently, but more frequently! Leslie Lennox offers up recipes for unique varieties of pesto like Roasted Jalapeño Cilantro and inventively provides ideas for new ways to incorporate the sauce into recipes like Chicken Pesto Fajitas. Whether you're looking for a guide on how to grow herbs
Ali Maffucci, cookbook author and founder of Inspiralized
"If you think you know all the ways to make pesto, think again. This fabulous cookbook is brimming with fresh ideas."
Suzy Chase, host of the Cookery by the Book podcast