I’m excited to share my version of pasta alla Trapanese, featuring Sicily’s amazing tomato pesto. I love the Genovese-style pesto, but when super-sweet cherry tomatoes are in season, I really believe this pesto is the best pesto. Enjoy!
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Absolutely
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Is this the first video without cayenne pepper?
Did you use Trapani salt?
Dang chef John! That recipe looked amazing! Definitely the best one in a while (they are all excellent but Italiano food is my weakness) I know people use almonds but my family uses walnuts when pine nuts aren’t available.
Questions. Did you blanch the almonds for a flavor purpose or just to get the skins off? And how come you didn't toast the nuts? Are pine nuts just hard to get for you?
Cant wait to try this recipe, almond pesto, thats interesting 🙂
This pesto is the besto!
I said it for all of us…
How well would this freeze?
Can we please get a chef john cook book? I know everything is on blog post but would be so fun to have a mini biography and a lost of his top 25 personal favorites etc. I would spend 50 to 100 dollars and go anywhere for a book signing. I have been a fan for years, and will till the end.
I made this last night and it was excellent! I was actually picking my cherry tomatoes yesterday anyways, so this was a perfect use of them. It was great! Super fantastic sauce, highly recommend it.
The color turned completely different. The green of the basil was turning the red of the tomatoes into a greenish orange? Anyway still was delicious
Hi, Chef! Could we get a recipe for Swiss steak?
Gnocchi a la trapanese? Or no? I like gnocchi with pesto.
I made this today. Besides putting it on pasta and eating it with bread (as Chef John suggested) how else can I use this sauce? I need ideas 😊
Excellent video and technique. I sincerely hope you make the trip to Sicily sooner rather than later. You definitely deserve it.
made this for my family tonight, delicious!!! added more garlic bc we love that garlicy taste, but man was it good 🙂 thanks Chef John!
NICE
i added a calabrian chili and some real dark crumbled breakfast sausage and it was awesome.
I don't have a blender. So I have attached 3 Razor blades to the end of my electric Toothbrush. This is taking forever…note to self: remove blades before brushing teeth later.
Tried the pesto tonight, as we have tons of tomatos. My husband was more than delighted, just added some piment d espelette.🙏🏼 chef
My wife is allergic to almonds what can I use instead? Walnuts?
Does this sauce freeze?
I was so stressed that that basil leaf would not fall in…
Just made it. Absolutely delicious
Chef John slinging rhymes like free limes 😂
Hi, I didn't have access to Pecorino Romano cheese so I used Grana Padano cheese instead, since it is not as strong as Parmigiano Reggiano.
It worked great in my opinion.
Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Would walnuts also work instead of almonds?
Magnificent 😍❤EXCELLENTRecipe👍🏻🌶
My ninja blender didn’t do a good job of breaking down the almonds. Had to transfer to the food processor and it finished the job. Just something to consider before making this. With that being said, this recipe was delicious!
0:25 the best pesto = the besto
I'm shocked! No Cayenne! 😳
Yummy!
I think at this point he missed the “this pesto is the besto” line just to mess with us
Why no pine nuts? And you didn't blanch tomatoes and remove skin.
The narrator's volume keeps going up and down and he always ends his sentences at such a low volume, I keep missing the last word he says