A slightly different take on Pesto.

Jamie Oliver again.

Florian loves his pesto, but the traditional one, the basil, roasted pine nuts, parmesan, garlic and olive oil pesto. Actually once, when he made it himself and added far too much garlic, it was one of the best ones ever.

But today I tried something that Mr Chav calls ” Sicilian pesto”, it would be worth asking Michele what he makes of it.

No expensive pine nuts, almonds instead, some basil, parmesan, garlic, chillies- the red ones and…tomatoes. Lots of olive oil as usual, seasoning and blitz to a nice paste. It was surprisingly good, but  not as awesome as the traditional basil pesto.

But still, let’s have it…

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