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Pesto

Pesto: what it is and where to eat it

Pasta tossed in a sauce made from crushed basil, pine nuts, garlic, and cheese.

52 restaurants on Tastavo serve it

Cuisine
Italian

Typical ingredients

  • basil
  • pine nuts
  • parmesan
  • olive oil

History of the dish

Italy

pesto
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Origin
Italy
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Pesto (Italian: [ˈpesto]), also known as pesto genovese, is an Italian paste traditionally made with leaves of Genovese basil, extra virgin olive oil, Parmesan (alternatively Grana Padano), pecorino sardo, pine nuts, and garlic. It originated in the Ligurian city of Genoa and is used to dress pasta.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Pesto” · version used · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources: Wikidata (CC0) · Wikipedia

Where to eat it

Genoa

Montpellier

London

Hamburg

Milan

Wrocław

Athens

Budapest

Toulouse

Vienna

Helsinki

Dresden

Barcelona

Cologne

Ibiza

Bologna

Lyon

Copenhagen

Zurich

Seville

Lisbon

Tallinn

Bucharest

Bratislava

Aarhus

Dublin

Poznań

Cluj-Napoca

Palma

Granada

Bordeaux

Bari

Alicante

Riga

Verona

Ljubljana

Bruges

Rhodes

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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