Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sauce consisting of usually fresh basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated cheese.
Wiktionary
- n. A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually Pecorino)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Cookery) A sauce used in Italian cuisine, typically made by blending olive oil, basil, garlic, pine nuts, and grated parmesan cheese; it is served hot or cold over pasta, meat, or fish. Where pine nuts are expensive, sunflower seeds are sometimes substituted.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil
Etymologies
- 1937, from Italian pesto, contraction of pestato, form of pestare ("to pound in a mortar"). Cognate to pestle. (Wiktionary)
- Italian, from past participle of pistare, pestare, to pound; see piston. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Add a quarter pound of lardo, and mash ingredients together until pesto is smooth.”
“Add two-thirds cup grated Parmesan and a quarter-cup olive oil, stirring until the pesto is smooth and creamy. — chefs Tony Mantuano and Sarah Grueneberg, Spiaggia in Chicago”
“Then, all winter I can grab pesto from the freezer by the cubed tablespoonful.”
“This pesto is for using in the dead of winter when fresh basil at the grocery store is $31.84/lb.”
“One option might be to mix some pesto from the refrigerated section of the market in with the topping (that is if you can find prepared pesto worth buying).”
Recipe for Artichoke Pastitsio with Basil Béchamel (Παστίτσιο με Αγκινάρες και Κρέμα Βασιλικό)
“The amount of basil that it takes to make pesto is pretty staggering.”
“The leftovers from making my winter pesto, is what I had.”
“The other good thing about pesto is the ‘no cook part’, just a whip in the blender and dinner is ready.”
“Basil pesto is the classic version and the most commonly found one.”
“But actually, the name pesto comes from the same Latin root of "pestle," which means a sauce made by crushing a few key ingredients together.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pesto’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...manicotti, spaggers, stelline, spaghettini, spag, linguine, fettuccine, penne, rigatoni, mezzani, zita, spaghetti and 391 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Open List: Sauces
A list of sauces, used in cuisines around the world. Many of these are listed in the encyplopedic tome of French cookery, Larouse Gastronomique.
Be sure to visit Ruzuzu's savory list ...vinaigrette, hollandaise, mayonnaise, juniper berry and..., béarnaise, allemande, sauce suprême, tarragon sauce, ravigote sauce, vert-pré sauce, tortue sauce, béchamel and 118 more...
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Olive
The edible kind, and related terms.
florence oil, olive, oliva, muffuletta, sweet oil, pistou, pesto, holy oil, tapenade, pimola, olive-clad, gremolata and 57 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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Wordies for a Foodie
Included are many Italian dishes that so many pronounce wrong. Which is highly annoying since no one ever even tries to pronounce them right!
tarragon, rosemary, thyme, mint, sprig, aromatic, radicchio, chicory, macaroon, parmagiana, pesto, arugula and 13 more...
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foodie list
pan, gourmet, mincing, clam, oyster, geoduck, scallop, meringue, baste, garam masala, rarebit, phyllo and 66 more...
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Favorite words
Is it really easy to choose one?
dulcet, cosmic, frenzy, wanderlust, mariner, zephyr, zenith, troubador, halcyon, hush, mist, chalice and 34 more...
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