Red Bell Pepper Pesto Recipe

Genuine Sardinian Parchment Cracker topped with Red Bell Pepper Pesto and Sardinian Cheese

Genuine Sardinian Parchment Cracker topped with Red Bell Pepper Pesto and Sardinian Cheese

This delicious sauce is easy to prepare. It’s something that nearly everyone would like. The Sardinian Parchment Cracker is very light and thin. The cracker needs only a small amount of pesto and I topped it with Sardinian  Fioro Sardo cheese. A similar cheese would be a pecorino. Instead mixing the cheese into the sauce I prefer to use a vegetable peeler and peel some on the top. That way it’s more layered with textures and flavors and the cheese doesn’t get lost in the mix. I also tried to make this sauce as healthy and light as possible and used a minimum amounts of oil and nuts.

Ingredients

8 Roasted red bell peppers (skin, stems seeds removed) you also need to keep the liquid from the roasted peppers.

2 garlic cloves minced

1 large red thai chili minced

2 oz. pine nuts toasted

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 teaspoon aleppo red pepper

1/2 cup fresh basil (cleaned, stems removed and I packed the leaves in really tight)

Just combine and blend.

Red Pesto

Red Pesto

Forking Good!

Forking Good!

 

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