Celebrate the tastes of Italy with this delicious pesto from Sicily, highlighting the finest local ingredients: tomatoes, almonds and basil.
This delicate, refreshing pesto is named for its birth place, the town of Trapani in the western corner of Sicily.
This traditional recipe is centuries-old, and likely inspired by Genova's more famous basil pesto. The locals then adpated the pesto recipe with their own local ingredients -- most notably, almonds and tomatoes.
Traditionaly served with busiati or fusilli cork-screw pasta, but any pasta will do. Buon appetito!
