pesto
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toʊ noun Italian Cookery.
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
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| —n | |
| a sauce for pasta, consisting of basil leaves, pine nuts, garlic, oil, and Parmesan cheese, all crushed together | |
| [Italian, shortened form of pestato, past participle of pestare to pound, crush] | |
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Pesto
is always a great word to know.
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Word Origin & History
pesto
olive oil-based pasta sauce, 1937, from It. pesto, contracted form of pestato, pp. of pestare "to pound, to crush," in ref. to the crushed herbs and garlic in it, from L. root of pestle.
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Example sentences
House specialties include fish prepared in cream, pesto or wine sauces as well as several pasta dishes.
Try all of the above with lemony aioli or mint pesto.
The pesto in this rice noodle pasta relies on walnuts, not pine nuts.
Try the jumbo-sized shrimp for an appetizer and the redfish entree with pesto.
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