Cooking Fettucine Pasta & Pesto Sauce

Series Summary

Cooking at home can be a challenge for most of us these days. With all of the emphasis on staying busy, being involved, and making a difference, along the way we seem to have lost the ability to sit down with friends or family and have a hot meal together, maybe even spending an entire hour eating and talking without the television on. Though it seems like fast food is perfectly suited to the fast world we have built around us, perhaps there is a balance to be struck between relaxation and the rat race, n’est-ce pas?

Looking for an easy dinner idea that only tastes like you put a lot of effort into it? Wondering what to serve to your kids besides fast food value meals or pizza? Do you want to learn how to make something that can be adapted to work with several different recipes throughout the week? In these free cooking videos, learn how to how make a fettuccine pasta and pesto sauce recipe. Our expert will walk you through the process step-by-step, with a list of ingredients and utensils needed, how to prepare the garlic and herbs, wash and cut vegetables, cook the pasta, how to blend the sauce, and how to bring it all together, season and serve. Enjoy this simply delicious dish any day or night of the week.

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Rich Buccola here in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make fettuccine with pesto sauce. Hey! We're going to do a great thing today real fast, real inexpensive. It's pesto. I'm from New York City and I remember pesto being on everything. It was fish. It was on pizza. I remember they used to put like a vinaigrette pesto. They used to have a black bean pesto. Today we're going to do the typical pesto, which comes from Genoa, Italy. It comes from the word pestâ, which means to pound. They used to make it in the big mortar and pestle, the big wooden thing. Sort of like with the pharmacist does. Today, we're going to use a blender or whatever you have. You could have a purér. It makes it much better than just pounding the leaves. It's a great summer dish because it's main ingredient is basil. My downstairs neighbors are from Greece and he says that the Greeks call it the royal herb. It's the reason why I tell everybody to freeze their basil because it's not always easy to get it. When we come back, I'm going to show you the way I make it, but you could use different variations. Come up with your own nuts and different types of cheeses and make your own pesto. Have fun. We're going to show you how to make pesto with fettuccine today here on Expert Village."