testaroli al pesto

pine nuts

🥗Healthier: walnuts

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Walnuts provide healthy fats and are more affordable than pine nuts.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grana padano

Grana padano is a less expensive cheese that can be used similarly.

Gradually add 200 ml warm natural water to 150 gr flour type 1, mixing to avoid lumps until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

Add salt as necessary to the flour mixture.

Add 10 ml extra virgin olive oil to a non-stick plate and heat it.

Pour the dough onto the hot, greased plate.

Cover the plate with a lid and cook until the dough is firm, then flip to cook the other side.

Once cooked, allow the dough to cool on the plate before cutting it into diamond shapes.

Boil water in a pot and add coarse salt as needed.

When the water is boiling, add the diamond-shaped testaroli and cook for about 6 minutes.

For the pesto, combine 100 ml extra virgin olive oil, 50 gr fresh basil leaves, 15 gr pine nuts, 30 gr Parmesan, 15 gr Pecorino, 1 clove of garlic, and salt to taste in a food processor and blend until smooth.

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