We are used to using the pesto especially in pasta, either hot, for a quick and tasty first course, which cold, for a fresh and tasty lunch or dinner.

But the truth is that with the pesto – of basil, of rocket salad, of zucchini and even of broccoli – you can do many other things, not just the sauce for pasta! Let's discover together all the recipes that can be prepared with this simple but delicious sauce.

Pesto recipes

With pizza

Let's start with one of the most famous dishes of the Italian cuisine: Pizza. Pesto is a perfect seasoning to prepare a light and delicious pizza. Any examples? This pizza with stracchino, porcini and pesto for example, or with i peppers and pesto. And for vegans there is also the pizza recipe with pesto veg and without mozzarella.

With risottos

We then move on to the risotto, to which the pesto offers an ideal condiment as it blends perfectly all ingredients without giving the dish too much taste. Any examples? Risotto with Fava beans with lettuce pesto, with i shrimp, with boiled potatoes and with bacon and provola for a really tasty first course.

With meat and fish

After the risotto it is the turn of the meat. Have you ever thought of stuffing the rolls with pesto? Or to flavor a chicken breast with pesto sauce? Also the kebab it can be seasoned with this versatile green sauce, as well as the veal escalopes, the fillet and the turkey breast.

Even when we talk about fish, the recipes that can be enriched with pesto are really many. Combined with almonds to embellish a salmon steak, in a salad of cod and legumes, with the mullet, the sea bream, to prepare delicious dishes fish rolls and for fanciful meatballs to bring to the table in minutes.

As a sauce for aperitifs

Finally, pesto can also be used in the preparation of an omelette with tomatoes, a rustic cake with ricotta and a salami with a strong flavor like speck, of a vegetarian lasagna. Not enough for you? If you still want pesto you can use it spreading it on toasted bread for an aperitif or on a sandwich for a tasty lunch and to season the stuffed tomatoes for a fresh and nutritious summer meal.

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