Recipe: Pesto Pasta Bake

This is extremely useful for using up days old picked basil leaves lying around in your refrigerator. Making it into pesto and mixing it with pasta, grating a bunch of cheese on top and putting a few more salted basil leaves on top and putting it into the oven-My oh my. 

Scientifically, baking it will kill any germs and bacteria on your slowly dying basil leaves. 

 

Recipe for pesto

1 cup of compact basil leaves

3/4 pine nuts

Oil based on your liking of texture. More oil for less viscosity. 

Salt

Pepper

1-2 cloves of garlic max. 

Parmesan cheese based on your liking 

1/4 Pasta water ( we will be baking the pasta and we don't want to dry out the pasta) 

Bake at 180 celcius for 15 minutes in a preheated oven and then 200 celcius for 7 minutes or until the cheese is golden brown. Enjoy.