The beauty and flavor of Italian Pesto cannot be compared to sauce or spice laden foods. Pesto is such a condiment, which requires no cooking and can flavor a dish single-handedly. Pesto is so flexible that you can add it to steamed veggies, poached fish, grilled meat, salads, stews, pasta, breads, crackers and soups. However, our focus is to tailor pesto to suit your health, the main foodstuff and the ingredients in hand.
Ann Lovejoy does it in a number of ways by focusing only on herbs, reducing the amount of olive oil and nuts to make it healthy, pairs a calorie-filled pesto with orange juice to burn the calories and adds walnuts to a dry pesto to add loads of richness.
Concisely Pesto is an economical flavoring condiment much like the Mexican salsa. However, unlike the salsa, it is healthier as you get the main ingredients right from the garden and the dairy farm, which constitutes of garden fresh basil, garlic, olive oil, pine nuts and optional cheese. This just tells you about nutrients that you are adding to your foodstuffs with pesto.
