Mushroom Pesto Pasta

Hi buddies,, now if you are only into hot-spicy food then pesto is something NOT for you. Its quite mild, rich, not too creamy and very very yummy. The smoothness of extra virgin olive oil, nutty taste and aroma of roasted pine nuts and herby flavour of basil leaves will make you fall in love with it.

Ingredients for Mushroom pesto pasta

couple of medium sized mushrooms (sliced or cut into wedges)
500 gm spaghetti
salt, to taste

Pesto:
100 gm basil leaves
30-40 gm roasted pine nuts
around 50 ml extra virgin olive oil
3-4 garlic cloves
pinch of salt
pinch of crushed black pepper

For the Sauce:
1. put basil leaves, pine nuts, garlic and half of the olive oil in food processor and make smooth paste.
2. pour some more olive oil and again give it a go.
3. mix salt and pepper.

For Pasta:
1. Saute the sliced mushrooms in 1 tbsp oil in a frying pan. Here you can put more or less quantity of mushrooms according to your choice.
2. Add boiled spaghetti, lil bit salt, pesto sauce and toss it well.
3. Add fresh basil leaves on top and serve right away.

Authentic style of making pesto is to do it in 'mortar n pestle', u can do it in food processor if therez shortage of time or if u want completely smooth texture. When I tried it first time, I made it manually, in mortar n pestle, next time I tried in food processor but found the manual one better as it has little grainy texture due to crushed pine nuts.