Frantoio Venturino Bartolomeo Srl

Red Pesto with basilico Genovese PDO

1. Fratelli Semeria
2. pesto

Description of the Product

Pesto is a typical Ligurian seasoning, traditionally used to flavour Pasta.

It’s a raw sauce, a mixture in wich the ingredients are cold blended, not cooked.

The essential ingredients are basil, oil, pine nuts, garlic and Grana Padano cheese.

To safeguard the freshness and the organoleptic characteristics of the raw materials, and to have full control of the productive chain, Frantoio Venturino in the 2010 has implemented a fresh basil production line by which in the Summer season produces in-house a semifinished product ( a mixture of basil, oil and salt) using fresh basilico Genovese PDO. The semifinished product could be immediately destinated to the pesto production or placed in the cold stores to be used in productions outsides of the Summer season.

The red pesto is an evolution of the known and traditional Pesto alla Genovese so much so that the recipe contains many of the Pesto alla Genovese ingredients like Basil (strictly  basilico Genovese PDO), the oil, Grana Padano Cheese and pine nuts. Its distinctive characteristic is the use of the pulp and of the tomato concentrate from which its tipical red colour comes from.

Ideal to flavour pasta, trofie, dumplings and Lasagne, it is also used (expecially in the Anglo-Saxon countries) as a spread on bruschetta, sandwiches and to dress salad.

For a perfect result we suggest to dilute it as needed with the pasta cooking water.

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