Unplugged Pesto (la Place)

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Pasta, Sauce	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Basil leaves, small loosely
		packed
1		Tender spinach leaf
4		Leaves flat-leaf parsley
1		Marjoram sprig, leaves only
		Pinch coarse sea salt
		half-teaspoon
2		Garlic cloves, peeled and
		lightly crushed
1/3	c	Grated parmesan cheese
3	T	Grated pecorino romano
		cheese
1/2	c	Extra virgin olive oil, more
		or less
1	lb	Spaghetti or spaghettini
		Extra grated cheese, for the
		table

INSTRUCTIONS

Remove any fibrous ribs from basil leaves. Remove spinach rib. Wipe
herbs clean with a dry tea towel. If herbs and spinach are not
organic, wipe them with a barely dampened towel. Place sea salt in a
large mortar. Add a few leaves, torn into fragments, and 1 clove of
the garlic. Start grinding with the pestle, using a circular motion,
until everything is reduced to a fine texture. Add a few leaves, and
grind and gently pound until leaves and garlic are reduced. Continue
in this way, adding the remaining garlic clove at roughly the
midpoint, until all leaves are ground to a fine textured pesto.  As you
work, keep scraping the pesto down into the bottom of the bowl  to form
a mound. With the pestle, gradually stir in the cheeses.  You will have
a very dense mixture. Scrape pesto off the pestle and  down from the
sides of the bowl into the bottom of the mortar. Pour  olive oil into a
small pitcher or measuring cup. Add olive oil in a  fine stream,
stirring it in with the pestle in a circular motion. Add  more oil only
as the stream of oil becomes fully incorporated into  the pesto.
One-half cup oil makes a very "loose" pesto. You may want  to use less
oil for a thicker pesto. Taste and add salt as needed.  Put a plate
over the mortar to seal off air. Place mortar in the  center of the
dining table. Meanwhile, cook spaghetti in abundant  salted boiling
water until al dente. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons pasta  water to the pesto,
whisking it in with a fork. Use tongs to lift  pasta, dripping wet,
into individual pasta bowls. Quickly spoon a  little pesto over each
bowl and let each person immediately mix it  into their pasta (if any
time elapses the pasta will start to stick  together). Place a spoon in
the mortar so diners can help themselves  to more pesto according to
taste. Serve with grated cheese at the  table. Serves 4 to 6.  Recipe
from "Unplugged Kitchen" by Viana La Place (Morrow).  Notes: Spinach,
parsley and marjoram: if you don't have all three,  include at least
one and increase the amount.  Recipe by: "Unplugged Kitchen" by Viana
La Place (Morrow).  Posted to KitMailbox Digest  by Pat Hanneman
<kitpath@earthlink.net>  on Sep 23, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 223 Calories From Fat: 94 Total Fat: 10.7g Cholesterol: 29.8mg Sodium: 585.9mg Potassium: 725.3mg Carbohydrates: 18.3g Fiber: 9.3g Sugar: 4.8g Protein: 18.8g

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