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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Australasian >> Australian >> Australian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Chop the garlic along with the 1/3 of the basil leaves. Once roughly chopped add more basil leaves. Roughly chop some more and then add the rest of the basil and keeping chopping until the basil and garlic are very finely minced. You will have to chop and then scrape the bits that try to escape back for more chopping. So it will be something like chop, scrape, chop, scrape. | 2. Add half of the macadamia nuts to the basil and chop. Add the rest of the macadamias and then chop. | 3. Now add half of the grated parmegiano reggiano to the basil and chop. Add the rest of the parmegiano reggiano and chop. | 4. The ingredients should be so fine that you can mould them into a little block. The pesto can be kept like this until you need to use it. | 5. Transfer the pesto block to a bowl and refrigerate until you need it. | 6. Just before serving the pesto, add 2 Tbsp of olive oil and the lemon juice to it to moisten it. You can also reserve a little of the pasta water to moisten the pesto a little more. | 7. Boil the spaghetti in salted water until done, 8-10 minutes. Drain then mix through with pesto and serve immediately. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
macadamia nut	1/3	cup	cut raw	320.7067	6.1729	3.5331	33.8439
basil leaf	1			-	-	-	-
garlic clove	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
parmigiano reggiano cheese	3/4	cup	grated	-	-	-	-
lemon	1/4		juiced	0.2796	0.0877	0.0044	0.003
extra virgin olive oil	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
sea salt	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
spaghetti				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.