Pesto Cream Sauce Recipe

Outstanding use of cream in a sauce! Be careful, by tweaking the ingredients in this recipe, you can end up with an extremely rich sauce recipe. A favorite use of mine is to pour a heavy drizzle of this sauce over freshly steamed mussels.

• Meal Type: Sauce
• Ethnicity: Italian
• Holiday Category: N/A
• Preparation Time: Less than 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 T prepared pesto sauce
• 6 T heavy cream
• 3 T butter (you can sub margarine, but real rich food fans should not)
• 2 T shredded parmesan

Directions

1. In a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat
2. Stir in prepared pesto sauce
3. Stir in heavy cream and lower stove temperatute to a point where the mixture does not boil.
4. Stir in grated parmesan
5. Simmer over light heat until reduced to your preferred consistency. I also like to add additional parmesan depending on the intended use.