Perfect homemade Pesto

I absolutely love pesto as its so versatile and the best thing is it is so easy to make which is why I never buy the jars of it now! Honestly it really is so simple and if you follow my basic recipe you can adjust the amounts to exactly your taste ie more parmesan or more pine nuts or more garlic, the choice is yours. Also pesto freezes brilliantly so there's no need to use all of it all of it at once, just pop into a small freezable pot ( I use old baby food pots) and pop in the freezer and just take out when you need it

25g of fresh basil leaves
1 tbsp pine nuts (toasted in a dry frying pan until golden)
2 tbsp Parmesan (grated)
Either 1 crushed garlic clove or 1 tsp garlic oil
A good glug of extra virgin olive oil (probably about 4 or 5 tbsp)

Add basil leaves to the food processor and blitz, add the pine nuts and blitz, add your grated Parmesan and either the garlic oil or crushed garlic and blitz until desired consistency is achieved . Pour in the extra virgin olive oil (you can add more or less at this stage, really depends if you want it to be drier or more oily) and give it one last blitz and its ready to use.

At this stage you can put it small pots and put into the freezer to use when needed