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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: tahnan@netcom.com (Mastersmith Encil)
- Subject: Pistou Sauce
- Message-ID: <tahnanCpFDsH.CyI@netcom.com>
- Organization: United Centaurs Associated
- Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 09:17:04 GMT
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- Since someone asked for a pesto sauce, I was reminded of this recipe:
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- Pistou (French basil sauce)
- >From _Simple French Cuisine_ by Jenny Baker
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- Put 4 garlic cloves into a mortar and pound to a paste with a pestle.
- Tear the 1-2 oz of basil leaves into pieces and add a few at a time to the
- mortar. Continue to pound until you have a dark green paste. Add 4
- ounces of hard cheese, one 'matchstick' slice at a time, and pound until
- the mixture has the consistency of soft butter. Gradually beat in 4-5
- tablespoons of olive oil, until the suace is like a coarse mayonnaise.
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- Comments:
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- Pistou can be added to soup; eaten with spaghetti; used over poached fish.
- Pistou also freezes well.
- The cheese should be a hard cheese; Parmesan and gruyere are suggested
- with a note that Roquefort, dry Edam, and mature Cheddar also work.
- (Grating instead of cutting into sticks supposedly alters the flavor.)
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- [My comments: I used dry basil instead of fresh, and cheddar instead of
- something 'fancier.' It came out fine. :-) Be warned--this _is_ fairly
- strong, because the garlic, though pounded and mixed, is raw.]
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- --Lance
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