Classic Pesto Genovese 180g, Tigullio Star

Pesto is a sauce originating in Genoa in the Liguria region of northern Italy, and traditionally consists of crushed garlic, basil, and European pine nuts blended with olive oil, Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan cheese). The name is the contracted past participle of the Genoese word Italian: pestare, which means to pound, to crush, in reference to the original method of preparation, with marble mortar and wooden pestle. However, the ingredients in a traditionally made pesto are not pounded” but “ground” with a circular motion of the pestle in the mortar.”