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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pesto
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A well-made pesto is a fine companion to a grilled game bird when a simple, low-cholesterol meal is in order.
▪ An evening meal began promisingly with a bruschetta topped with chopped spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and feta cheese.
▪ Available in the exotic section of most supermarkets. green pesto, spread mixture over dough.
▪ From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake.
▪ Is that a like creamy pesto?
▪ The new Primula Light half fat additions are cucumber & mint and sun dried tomato & pesto.
▪ With a cheese slicer or sharp knife, shave thin strips of cheese over pesto.
▪ With a little pesto in it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pesto

pesto \pes"to\ (p[e^]s"t[-o]), n. [It. pesto, pounded, from pestare to pound, crush, fr. LL. pistare, fr. pinsere. See also pestle.] (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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pesto

olive oil-based pasta sauce, 1937, from Italian pesto, contracted form of pestato, past participle of pestare "to pound, to crush," in reference to the crushed herbs and garlic in it, from Latin root of pestle.

Wiktionary
pesto

n. A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino)

Wikipedia
Pesto

Pesto (; ) or, in extenso, pesto alla genovese , is a sauce originating in Genoa, the capital city of Liguria, Italy. It traditionally consists of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, Parmigiano-Reggiano (Parmesan cheese) and pecorino sardo (cheese made from sheep's milk), all blended with olive oil.

Pesto (album)

Pesto is a four-track EP by Less Than Jake, consisting of old four-track recordings of the group, recorded in 1992 and released in 1999 by Very Small Records.

The EP was recorded before the horn section or Roger Manganelli were included in the band's line-up. It was a limited release, with only 2,500 black and 500 gray 7-inch vinyl records pressed. The track "Good Time for Change" was later featured as a bonus track on the band's Losers, Kings, and Things We Don't Understand album.

Pesto (disambiguation)

Pesto may refer to :

  • Pesto, a type of spicy sauce in Italian cuisine
  • Pesto (see), a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see on the Ancient site of Paestum in Italy
  • Pesto (album), a 1999 EP by Less Than Jake
  • Robert Peston, BBC financial journalist, informally known as Pesto
  • Pesto, one of three members of the Goodfeathers, characters on Animaniacs

Usage examples of "pesto".

Just this one night, she decided, she would indulge herself and have pesto with her pasta instead of marinara.

Eliette were well behaved during the meal, though it was soon apparent that tortellini in pesto sauce was not their favorite dish.

Less of a leader but a mechanical genius, such as in hotwiring cars, picking locks, fixing ski lifts, and turning pesto sauce into an anaesthetic.

Her dinner would consist of leftover pesto pasta and a slice of stale French bread.

Caroline, bringing her famous dried-tomato pesto to parties and running lab columns late at night so we could go away for the weekend and always .

Stanford ordered the trenelle al pesto, the local pasta, veal, andfocaccia, the salted bread of the region.

Hers had been filled with pasta, little jars of pesto sauce, bottled spring water, a Iloaf of good Seattle bread, and a couple of bottles of sauvignon blanc and zinfandel wine.

Lipsitz, who had fitted my shoes during my entire boyhood, ordered spaghetti with pesto sauce from me as she stood chatting with Mr.

Council Crest Park, as she was cooking a dinner of angel-hair pasta with pesto sauce, pine nuts, fresh garlic, and chopped tomatoes, Holly suddenly wondered how Jim Ironheart could have known that young Billy Jenkins was in danger even before the drunken driver in the pickup truck had appeared over the crest of the hill.

Stews and soda breads were listed alongside linguini and pesto dishes.

For the layers, she mixes together soy hamburger crumbles, a good tomato sauce filled with mushrooms and finely chopped vegetables, low-fat mozzarella cheese, and non-fat ricotta cheese made even tastier by a good infusion of pesto.

De Biasi had given me a huge Panettone, biscuits, jars of anchovies, a bottle of olive oil, ajar of pesto.

THEY SAT AT ONE of the sidewalk tables at Swingers, on the side of the coffee shop along Beverly Boulevard: Chili Palmer with the Cobb salad and iced tea, Tommy Athens the grilled pesto chicken and a bottle of Evian.

Focaccia alla salvia, torta pasqualina, trenette col pesto, trippa con il sugo di tocco, burrida, tomaxelle, cima alla Genovese, dozens more.

Bloody Marys came a bottle of Barolo and a soup in which streamers of egg, flecks of parsley, pesto sauce, and pasta circulated through a chicken broth.