Or with a hand mixer.
Or by pounding the basil with the thing used to push the food through the food processor. [well maybe if you had hours.]
You have to have a good food processor then when the recipe says it only takes 5 minutes can you actually believe it.
This morning I was browsing recipes online at work - trust me there was nothing else to do - and I decided I wanted to have chicken and pasta with pesto sauce tonite for dinner, I got so excited about my delicious meal and I was looking forward to making it all day and after my last class I got everything I needed at the grocery store. I rushed home and prepared everything, [I planned on eating a late lunch/early dinner because I go to work at 5:30 and get off at 8 and have plans afterwards] and realized that chopped basil can only turn into paste one way, through a food processor, like the recipe says. I tried using my roommates little one to no avail, I'm still not sure how it works but besides basil flying everywhere and the amount that did go through not getting turned into paste, it was a horrible failure. Thats when I turned to the blender, mixer, and the pounding. Sadly all my efforts on resulted in about 5 tablespoons of something closely resembling sewage. I'm a little disappointed.
But I'm going home tomorrow and I'm very excited about that, and speaking of I need to go get some packing done.
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Sorry it didn't work out for you! Your post made me hungry--I didn't eat enough for dinner! I make pesto in the blender all the time since it minces it much finer than the food processor. Did you add some garlic and olive oil? The olive oil gives it a liquid to help it break down into a nice paste.
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