Pesto Ligure

Name: Pesto Ligure
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about 1¼ cups (300 ml)
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: about 2½ bunches (100 g) Basil; about 6 Tbsp (100 ml) Olive Oil; ⅔ cup (70 g) Parmesan; about ⅓ cup (40 g) Pine Nuts; 30 g Pecorino; ½ tsp (3 g) Salt; about ½ clove (3 g) Garlic

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Marco Visciola recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Marco Visciola.

SPREAD · TORTELLI & PASTA

In the published recipe, this is the spread for tortelli with Ligurian pesto.

Marco Visciola's Ligurian pesto for tortelli.

On the jar

PESTO

Method: blend
Yield: about 1¼ cups
Ingredients: 7

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Olive Oil 100 ml

Ingredients

Basilabout 2½ bunches (100 g)
Olive Oilabout 6 Tbsp (100 ml)
Parmesan⅔ cup (70 g)
Pine Nutsabout ⅓ cup (40 g)
Pecorino30 g
Salt½ tsp (3 g)
Garlicabout ½ clove (3 g)

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Marco Visciola works in Ligurian seafood at Il Marin; credentials include Michelin 1* (Il Marin, Genoa).

Adapted from a Marco Visciola recipe (Marco Visciola / Reporter Gourmet (tortelli pesto)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Marco Visciola / Reporter Gourmet (tortelli pesto) (published as “Pesto Ligure”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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