Chinese Food
Green sauce
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Usually the spaghetti we eat in China is tomato sauce. It's mainly made of tomato. I even thought tomato sauce was the synonym of spaghetti. Among the four basic sauces of spaghetti, green sauce based on basil and pine nut is the most unique and full-bodied one. This delicious green sauce is very simple to make. Even people who have no cooking experience can make it without failure.
Cooking ingredients
Cooking Steps
Step1:Clean the fresh sweet basil leaves and put them into the stone mortar.
Step2:The pine nuts are peeled.
Step3:Bake the pine nuts to a yellowish color.
Step4:Add the roasted pine nuts to the stone mortar.
Step5:Add in the peeled and washed garlic. Rub in the Parmesan cheese, pepper and sea salt.
Step6:Mash all the ingredients in the stone mortar. (you can also use a knife to chop basil and then mash it together.
Step7:Finally, add olive oil. Stir well. Finish with green sauce.
Step8:Add a few drops of lemon juice to the endless green sauce, and seal the surface with olive oil to keep off the air. Refrigerate in a sealed tank. It will last about 57 days.
Step9:For mixing pasta. Perfect.
Cooking tips:When serving with spaghetti, boil the spaghetti first, drain the water and put it into a pan. Mix the green sauce and put it on a plate. Serve with parmesan cheese. Green sauce can also be used with bread or pizza. The basil for making green sauce should use Italian sweet basil. Many businesses confuse the nine story tower with basil. It is necessary to distinguish them. Nine layer tower is generally used in Southeast Asian cuisine. It has a strong spicy flavor, while Italian basil is sweet. Basil leaves are very easy to turn black after picking. They can be soaked in water before use to prevent deterioration. The oil seal and lemon juice after the green sauce is made are also important steps to avoid deterioration. ⊙ there is no fixed proportion of raw materials of green sauce. It can be adjusted according to your own preferences. As a sauce, the sauce can be salty. There are skills in making delicious dishes.
