Homemade pesto recipes
Once you’ve made pesto yourself, there’s no going back to the shop-bought stuff! Browse our homemade pesto recipes from basil to mint to watercress versions.
If you’re looking for a recipe to use your freshly-made pesto in, take a look at our 20 ways with pesto page.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Green sauce
Make a generous batch of this aromatic herby green sauce, store it in the freezer and you’ll have the means...
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Wild garlic recipes
Wild garlic pesto lasagne
Make the most of seasonal wild garlic with this springtime pesto lasagne. As there’s no heavy ragù to make, it’s...
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Easy dinner recipes and ideas
Chicken, bean and orzo soup with walnut pesto
This hearty chicken and bean soup from food writer Debora Robertson is packed with nuggets of filling orzo pasta. Finish...
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'Nduja recipes
Charred purple sprouting broccoli with ‘nduja, kale pesto and crackling crumb
This dish from The Free Company restaurant near Edinburgh makes a cracking starter or side dish. Charred broccoli is elevated...
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30-minute meal recipes
Best pesto pasta
As far removed from any jarred pesto as you can get, this is the pesto pasta you wish you had...
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Summer pasta recipes
Trapanese pesto pasta with salmon
Basil and pine nut pesto, originally from Liguria, tends to hog the quick pasta sauce limelight, but Sicily’s trapanese pesto...
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Gnocchi recipes
Broccoli gnocchi
Use both florets and stalks to make a rich broccoli pesto bolstered by super-savoury anchovies and basil. This speedy gnocchi...
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15-minute meal recipes
Red pepper pesto pasta
Our punchy homemade pesto with hazelnuts and red pepper tastes so much better than pesto from a jar. Toss with...
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Brussels sprouts recipes
Sprout pesto
Sprout pesto is a quick and easy way to add a Christmas hit of flavour to pasta dishes, soups or...
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Homemade pesto recipes
Wild garlic and hazelnut pesto Â
Gill Meller’s four-ingredient wild garlic and hazelnut pesto takes just 10 minutes to make and tastes great with soups, pasta...
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Italian pasta recipes
Squash ravioli with mushrooms and sage pesto
Homemade ravioli is such a special dish and will really impress anyone you serve it to. This autumnal recipe is...
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Italian vegetarian recipes
Roasted mushrooms with rocket pesto
Try these flavoursome roasted mushrooms, with a punchy rocket pesto, as an easy starter or satisfying lunch.
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Homemade pesto recipes
Watercress pesto
We’ve used a mixture of watercress and basil in this pesto recipe for a lighter, fresher taste. Stir through pasta...
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Homemade pesto recipes
Hazelnut and mint pesto
Dunk fresh prawns into this nutty pesto or stuff it under chicken skin before cooking. It’s also wonderful stirred through...
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Homemade pesto recipes
Mint pesto
There’s no need for mint sauce with lamb – Simmone Logue’s mint pesto recipe brings a new take to Sunday...
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Homemade pesto recipes
Pesto alla genovese
Made the traditional way – using a pestle and mortar – this classic pesto, from the Italian region of Genoa,...
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