How to Mix Pesto for Chicken Pesto Pizza

Video Transcript

"For Expert Village I'm chef Danielle were going to continue with our presto your going to need to a blender if you have a food processor that's better if you don't that's fine you can just use any blender you have at home. I premeasured my ingredients you want about 2 cups of fresh basil leaves a 1/2 cup of olive oil which I might need a little bit of olive oil, 3 tablespoons of pine nuts and a 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese. You want to do this in about 1/3 so you want to take about a third of your leaves and put them in your blender and your going to want to kind of chop it up a little bit in your blender. Just kind of get it going same thing with your pine nuts if you don't want to take the whole lid off this is what it's designed for I never used for years why this little part came off. You can just add it on the top and it's easier than having to undo your blender top, put a little bit of cheese in there and then get it all chopped up a little bit more. And you want to slowly add your olive oil so while it's chopping you want to take off the top and drizzle in your olive oil very slowly. Now if it gets to this point you are going to have to take off your lid your going to want to use a rubber spatula and scrap down your sides, this is what they call a scrapping down your side. Because you want to be sure that all yummy good stuff is in there you also want to add a little bit of garlic if you don't want to keep removing your lid this little middle part you can either use a towel or hand. If it's something like hot liquid be sure you put a towel and put over it so you don't burn or something like this. I can just blend it and add more until we get everything added in and what your going to end up with at the final result is a smooth thick paste. And what's good about pesto is whatever you don't use you can refrigerate it for about a week you can also put it in the freezer its going to last for about 2-3 months. Pesto is pretty good to put on I'm going to blend this again it's really good to put on pizza sauce like were going to do you can put it on alfredo sauce it makes a great pesto alfredo sauce. You can also use different types of leaves for pesto theres spinach pesto, there's a cilantro pesto, you can use sundried tomatoes for pesto but the standard pesto is going to be with basil and once I get all this mixed up I'm going to show you the final product."