Is Sicily's RED PESTO Better than Pesto Genovese? 

1:11 The reason you're one of my favorite YT cooks is that you distinguish between Italian and Italian-American cuisine without belittling the latter. You recognize and respect it as its own cuisine. And you're one of the only YT cooks to consistently get Italian-American recipes right.

I'm sorry, but this guy has mad culinary skills and knowledge. I love watching his videos

A suggestion for this: the consistency should not be puree, it should have some texture since it's traditionally done in a mortar, so pulse it a few times instead of turning on the blender continuously. The way you've done it also adds heat to what should be be a raw sauce. You can put the blades in the freezer for a bit and just pulse to avoid cooking the pesto.

What a masterpiece of a video. I am from Palermo, a few km from Trapani, and you really did this justice. The amount of passion that translates into research and respect for each dish and its history... I do carry my hobbies the exact same way and it's inspiring. I didn't even know about the meaning of 'busa' or the screwer trick. As an Italian, I do agree there is a little bit of belittling that Italians do of Italian-American food, I like how you threw it out there. To be fair, most Italians would just do that with any food that is not Italian, and often times they haven't even travelled 100 kilometers away from where they were born. That said, I do think some Americanized version of Italian food takes it a little far. Like all the pizza chains. Or the amount of cream used in pasta dishes. But, I do understand I may not even have a good understanding of what Italian-American food really means even by living in the US. Side note: I think it may be more common when this is homemade to keep it a bit more rustic by blending the ingredients a bit less than a regular pesto. That way you can feel those bits of almond in your teeth. I honestly do not have a preference though. One has more crunch to it, the other one allows better "mantecatura" with the pasta water and parmigiano

it's not just the texture that is improved in a mortar and pestle. the flavor is much better. the blades in a blender damages the basil by cutting rather than crushing and adds more astringent flavor compounds. it's fine in a blender and can obviously taste good but the difference is pretty substantial. JUST SAYIN.

Yes, I'm so glad you clapped back about Italian-American food!

Everytime I think there can't be any more Italian recipes out there you find another great one lol

This is by far one of the best pastas that I have ever made. I was a little skeptical when you said it was better than regular basil pesto but you have to try it to believe it. But try it soon, before the season ends when there are no more fresh cherry tomatoes or basil left. I might try making it and freezing it so I can have it in the winter.

recently found out all my grandma's people were from Castellammare del Golfo, probably the port the Genovese sailed into. This pesto looks and sounds absolutely luscious. Thanks for another great simple but incredible pasta dish.

I absolutely love your channel brother! I'm just a regular dad in Arkansas that likes to cook, but you have seriously elevated my game! thank you so much. My absolute favorite cooking channel!!!!

I love your work Chef. It's just freaking awesome. Passion, teachable moments, the whole nine yards - well 10 because your work renders a 10/10.

Beautiful. Can’t wait to try out this recipe

I absolutely love this video, Stephen. You are such a great teacher, you explain things so well. And you handle the pasta making as if you’ve been doing it all your life! Love your own twist (pun intended) on rolling up those pasta shapes. Great fun to watch. I look forward to making them! And the bullet looks like a handy dandy kitchen device, perfect for this sauce - I just might get one! Thanks for another delicious looking recipe I’d be proud to make!

I love watching you make and teach all different kinds of pasta. Keep up the great work!

It looks fantastic as always! Love your videos🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

Gotta give that a try...... looks delicious.

This is one of your best videos to date. Thanks for all of the details.

Masterful. Love your passion.

Steve you are just a wonderful teacher ... love your channel and thank you for another amazing recipe (that I'll be trying very, very soon)!

This is excellent! As an Italian-American who loves to cook and loves to eat, pesto is always one of my favorite flavors. My 3 Italian grandparents (the 4th is Irish/German) were all Southern Italian but not Sicilian, so I didn't grow up on any Sicilian recipes. I adore Genovese Pesto, but a few years ago, I first had Busiate Trapanese at Norma in NYC on 53rd and 9th. It's an excellent Sicilian restaurant that opened just a couple years ago, and this dish is one of my favorites there. Now I need to try to make it!

I made this tonight. My new favorite for sure 👍🏻

This is one of the videos, where I need a two thumbs up button!

Cuisine made with heart, soul and mind. Well done Chef. Thank you for sharing ❤

I ❤ tomatoes in Pesto. Especially the sundried variety. This sounds and looks amazing!

So much passion

Really LOVED this red pesto! Definitely my new favorite ❤️ thank you 🙏

I love this trapanese style pesto 😊

I'm not a raw tomato fan typically, but I'm definitely going to give this a try. Looks delicious.

so interesting and creative, i learn a lot from you

God, I love this. I have been experimenting with Pesto for about 10 years. Using different nuts, different herbs, sundried tomatoes, and once even a Southwest Pesto with Cilantro, Pumpkin seeds, and a Jalapeno. Italians would kill me but I really believe this sauce can be made so many ways to create all kinds of sauces that can be used in so many ways. Love the pasta too. Great Video.

Both history as well as taste and practicality and great techniques shown in a way that is approachable to mere mortals, you are a legend, sir

That was AMAZING!!!!!! As usual 😎👍🏻👍🏻🔥🔥

I'll make this pasta for sure!

That sounds amazing!

This is great!

That looks fantastic.

Definitely on my to try list.

I am going to be making this next Sunday. What a stellar dish for the end of tomato season. Perfecto.

That is a beautiful recipe. I'm gonna steal that one.

really incredible techique

I am definitely trying this

Just beautiful

This looks delicious !!! The only homemade pasta I ever made was manicotti crepes .. I’d like to make this pasta , I’ll give it a try ! I also love all kinds of pesto too !! Thanks for the recipe , you are amazing !!

You are one of if not best teachers on here, chef.

Fantastic!!

Well done with the "keep screen on " icon on your recipe page. I'm from Dublin, Ireland.and really enjoy your recipes.

Yummyyy! Love to see more Sicilian (or even Sicilian American) recipes!

I love every thing about this channel for 3 years except the website, the company that designed it had broken images and big design mistakes on their own website and yours too. Please let them know about these broken images and SSL protocol errors.

Wow, cool pasta technique. I bet that dish is awesome! I make pesto with avocado oil and pistachios... Everyone that tries it loves it over traditional - In Texas.

Just made this Pesto. It is so tasty, sweet, but lovely and savory. Hit it with some salt and as you said, it just comes alive. Thanks for these videos. I just discovered your channel. No nonsense proper good cooking.

One more exceedingly good recipe, easy due to his direction and delicious due to his expertise 🎉❤🎉

I had some tomato pesto and ricotta the other day with really good Italian made pasta. It was honestly a heavenly dish. I couldn't stop eating it. I will need to make this. It looks amazing. The fact that I have pretty much found my favorite pasta after 61 years has been a lot of fun.

Love the pasta shape toot. I'm gonna try this out over the holidays and get the fam to help dough roll on a skinny stick. It'll be so fun.

im deathly allergic to pine nuts so i love a version of pesto without them!! looking forward to trying this!

I gave you a like because you incorporated the product placement so well into the recipe 😂

When I went to get the recipe, the page was not found. Thank you so much for the work you do

Solid work Steve! Thx again for another inspirational vid... Do ur own cooking & kind regardz2all...

Duel education, I'm here for it. 😊 I really want to try and make this. 😊 Thank you for sharing. ❤ (I love nutri bullets honestly. We still use one or their older models we have.)

Gotta buy almonds now.This looks amazing

My very favorite pesto of all time! Actually I have made this pesto and served it as a dip. It’s delicious with sesame seed bread sticks, crusty toasted bread torn into pieces or some fresh cut veggies.

Bravo paisan

That’s a beautiful thing.

Man I do love the respect you put in your take on italian recipes and I enjoy your videos a lot! I got to say that we italian don't belittle American (Italian-american are amricans for us) takes on classic italian recipes, we just kindly ask to stop saying that e.g. the "carbonara" made with pancetta, mushroom and sour cream is a carbonara and is italian. We don't own the rights on how to use pasta in the world, you can do whatever you like with it, just don't say that "this is italian"... of course it's not the case with your videos, you are always very honest and that's why I, as an italian, watch your content enjoying it everytime :)

I just met a guy from Sicily, and we got to talking about regional foods, and he mentioned arancini. So I mentioned you, and sent him your video. He he went into detail about which arancini has which filling, but he told me he's Def going to check you out. I'll show him this vid next and see what he says.

Great video - I actually watched this one because of the inoffensive thumbnail

The lead into the nutribullet add was top tier mate 😂

While I've always started pesto as garlic and pine nuts I've tried saving pine nuts / whatever but until last which works perfectly fine so to save space doing garlic and basil first works rather well

I love genovese pesto, but I'm definitely going to try this. Are the tomato skins okay if we don't have a processor or blender?

I absolutely love your approach to Italian food, because it's such a liberating contrast from the culture that's been created around it on social media in the past few years. I'm talking about the culture where there are only ten different dishes, and if you don't follow the *original* recipe from *Italy* to a tee, you've done it *wrong*. Like the rest of the world, Italy is a huge place with many different food cultures that are constantly evolving, and often originate from peasants using what they had. So this is just me thanking you for not being one of the "real carbonara doesn't have garlic!" snobs, while introducing us to amazing and authentic Italian recipes I would've never heard of.

Usually, I avoid pesto because I intensely dislike pine nuts, but this sounds utterly delicious! It sounds fresh and summery but without those pesky, waxy and insipid pine nuts. Apologies to fans of the kernel, but I've been trying to overcome the aversion for years and haven't managed it yet. Maybe it's just one of those genetic things like cilantro where you either love it or simply can't eat it,

Hey dumb question! Is it okay to save and reuse the flour that you used to dredge and cover the raw pasta in? If so do you usually just put it back in the bag or you keep it separated? How many times would you reuse it?

Flour is fuckn magic! I’m so glad my physiology allows for the delicious wizardry of glutenous cuisine.

Can we please get him on television 📺

Thank you for pointing out how "some" people like to belittle Italian-American food, it's what I grew up with and continue to make today. Even after spending time in Italy, I still prefer the Americanized versions of certain dishes.

Recepie link is down, byt looks great!

Saving this for tomato season... Damn hot day some wine... this would slap

What brand is your shirt? I'm loving the design.

bruh, i was literally in trapani last week eating this

Love this pesto version… yumm will definitely try it

When I make pesto, I tend to add some pecorino to the parmigiano, because I like its saltiness and its stronger flavor. I've also found that pecans are a good substitute for pine nuts, as they have a similar sweetness, lack the astringency of walnuts, are readily available in the US (unlike pine nuts which can be hard to find sometimes), and are less expensive. I find that using the unripe seed pods from the basil plant, in addition to its leaves, imparts a stronger basil flavor to the pesto. It also lengthens the growing season of the plant if you pull the seed pods off. As long as the basil and garlic are fresh, and the olive oil is good, the pesto will be delicious. I might try adding a a raw tomato to the pesto.

I experiment a lot with pestos. Subbing the cheese, nuts and greens.

The recent video cover thumbnail is strange but the videos continue to be absolute fire

You should try pesto pantesco, from pantelleria

[eyeballs her bowls full of cherry tomatoes because her plants decided to go super saiyan this summer] Thanks for posting this! Now I know what to make for the next couple of nights! 😁

Hey Chef try some of that red pesto with some fried baby potatoes 🥔 😋 its ace

Toasted almonds make a lot of things better. Especially chicken. I like them on grilled chicken salads and they take basic chicken salad to a whole other level.

A small correction: the recipe for Pesto alla Genovese also contains Pecorino. It can be mixed with Parmiggiano Reggiano, but originally it was only made with Pecorino.

Does the sauce freeze well? Would you freeze it without adding the cheese?

great video man! but why pesto never touches heat

I’ve been making Trapanese pesto for years! Mine is a lot more green though

Sounds very similar to Sip and Feasts recipe 🌱🍅 🧄

😋😃😄🧡💛💚💙 yummy

Babe wake up, new recipe is up

I like you - this is a great channel - can you show us Spaghetti all'assassina??

Bro I love the bussy ate noodles

Beautiful..like a rotini but way better I usually blanche my pesto leaves on the basil to keep it green. It doesn't seem like you need to do anything like this for the coloring of the pesto. It looks so different it almost looks lemony

Do you have a cook book?

I actually love the thumbnail, since I saw his face and immediately realized Get you some one who looks at you the way this man looks at his pasta

I was wondering when you were gonna correct your pepper cream sauce with this

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