Enjoy Bianca's basil pesto lasagna with beans and potatoes | Pasta Grannies
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Bianca shares her recipe for a delicious 'lasagna al pesto'. It's a special dish and a special episode because we collaborated with Pixar, who asked Pasta Grannies from Liguria to watch their Luca trailer; the result is a 'reaction video' which I've added to the end of this episode. Bianca and the other nonne you'll meet over the coming weeks all appear in it.
The recipe is a long one. You'll need a lot of good quality, fresh basil pesto, about 400g; 700ml béchamel sauce; pasta dough, using 300g 00 flour and 3 eggs, rolled out and cut into squares to fit your deep baking dish, one large baking potato, 200g fine green beans; grated parmesan to scatter over the top.
The boys are so cute sitting on the stairs watching their nonna :)
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Haha that warmed my heart, too. I used to love hanging around the kitchen when my mom or grandma was cooking, so I could sample everything, too. These boys got the right idea, too
@@DSmith-gs4tr They do, because one day, they may have to do this themselves.
@@lewissmith3896 Well, they couldn't have a better teacher. She taught me some things.
The little boys coming to see their grandmother is just too precious!
Watching the Grannies reacting to Luca brings joy to life!
I was grinning non stop while watching them! :)
@@krithikasaptarishi8987 Me too. Genius marketing strategy by Disney.
To me it Looks very stupid
@@alessandroalessandro4656 So sorry for your sad view of life.
We had such fun filming the Grannies too! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
i have never seen basil plants wrapped in paper that way! how cute
they might still have the roots on them because they're often grown in hydroponic systems these days. the roots ste then wrapped in damp paper.
@@FistyCarrera No brother we don't grow basil with hidroponics in Liguria there are strict regulations about that, the plant is taken out of the soil with the roots and than wrapped like that because there is lot of dirt still attached.its just the traditional way of selling basil in Liguria nowhere else in italy is sold like that
@@FistyCarrera they do still come with the roots attached. you can actually transplant them to grow your own. no hydroponics (there's lots of dirt attached), but they're grown in greenhouses in a layer of dirt that is renewed each time.
@@EGOCOGITOSUM I was wondering if they still had their roots. Thank you.
One of the best videos from Pasta Grannies! Having a house facing Boccadasse is a treasure!
omg... those boys coming by for Nonna's cooking, that is exactly what Pasta Grannies is all about!
Pixar's IG featuring these lovely nonnas reacting to Luca brought me to Pasta Grannies. I've been watching ever since! What a great and positive channel! ❤
hi Hazel, welcome to Pasta Grannies! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
My mom is some good 15 months without seeing her grandchildren. I too really miss my nephews and niece. Hard times, but it will pass soon.
Vicky, you should really know how much this channel must be helping many people across the world, including me, by bringing some joy and happiness in these troubled times. Many tks 💜
hi Luanlluan, it's good to hear Pasta Grannies is helping you through hard times. And yes, you are not alone in finding comfort; a lot of people have written to me, which is very humbling. And I do so hope things improve for everyone. best wishes, Vicky
When I was in Rome once, I had a lunch of pasta with potatoes and string beans in pesto sauce. It was so good that I've been making it ever since - now I have to make that wonderful lasagne!
Yep, that's how it's traditionally eaten in Liguria. Wheat was a precious, imported commodity. Check out the other videos on this channel, where pesto is similarly combined wth string beans, potatoes, fava beans... and the pasta itself is made from a mixture of wheat flour and chestnut flour. Lots of different strategies to minimize the use of wheat flour, and maximize the use of local ingredients.
Bianca is a hard worker in the kitchen. Much respect. You don't see this that often anymore. I feel like I want a sabbatical in Italy until I die. These beautiful ladies can all teach us a thing or two about real cooking. Be well and blessed all.
Thank you Pixar for including the Nonnas, they are adorable and full of joy!!
I just wanna say a big thank you to Pasta Grannies❤️ You cured my depression 🥺
I'm glad our Pasta Grannies help you, Sanchi. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Love it when the Grannies were moving with the music🎼🎵 leftover pesto is delicious and that lasagne looked amazing - lucky grandsons 😊
I just love this channel. Such a simple concept executed so beautifully. Pasta is life! Grannies are love!
hi Lynn. Glad you enjoy it! And great slogan! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Bravissima nonna Bianca !!!!
Che piatto delizioso!
Grazie a pasta Grannies, ci porta tanta tenerezza anche al estero ♥️
I’ve bought the book, watched every video and as an italian approve of the Luca tie in. You helped us survive pandemic lockup. I’ve cooked many of the dishes. A million thanks.
Lovely. Have seen them use sliced potatoes in pasta dishes a few times now. Thats the sort of "double carbing" I can happily go with. 😋 The whole dish looked good, bet it tasted even better. The aroma of fresh homemade pesto is hard to beat. She has very lucky grandchildren.
Looks like they enjoyed the trailer for Luca, great you're getting some sponsorship.
As always you've made me hungry with the video so I think its time for me to cook dinner.
hi Goat Boy, I think that local commercial basil growers are able to rely on sunshine makes the leaves properly fragrant and delicious. The stuff you get in bags in UK supermarkets is never quite the same. best wishes, Vicky
@@pastagrannies Hello Vicky,
In season I grow a few varieties of basil for making sauces & pesto. The supermarket stuff is forced in greenhouses & as you say never has the flavour of plants grown outside. One of the advantages of living further North is that although we get a lot of rain, the days are longer. So certain fruits & herbs get more time to mature & ripen leading to wonderful tastes. One of last years experiments was using some Red Rubin Basil I'd grown, in my pesto. Adds an interesting flavour & colour. All the best, James.
hi James, your basil experiment reminded me of one of mine where I used Greek basil to make pesto - it wasn't a success, though I guess I should blame the cook not the tiny leaves 😀 best wishes, Vicky
Il pesto genovese
E il più buono in assoluto.
E le lasagne al pesto
Saranno una specialità.
Li faro.
Brava
So much fun to watch the Pasta Grannies seeing Luca! Bianca made a gorgeous lasagna. She's absolutely right -- you have to have the best ingredients to make the best. It looked delizioso! My first taste of pesto was made in America, by an Italian nonna, from Liguria, over 40 years ago.
What an ABSOLUTELY delightful episode of Pasta Grannies. This made me smile!
hi Andrew, I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Darling Vicki and crew - what a gift you are!!! Keep shining that beautiful 'Nona' light, it's the simplest of pleasures that makes life's treasures, le wink.... much love to all, keep on cooking, eating and loving !! xoxo Carmel by the Sea
Thank you Gina! I'm delighted you enjoy the videos 🙂🌺 best wishes Vicky
Always great to watch the granny in the kitchen. Really marvelous. And those grandsons are very fortunate.
Recently been introduced to this dish and now, thanks to this channel I know *_exactly_* how to make it…!
Grazie mille Nonna’s 🥰🥰🥰
7:04. “Mia NONNA è super” ❤️ My grandmother is super. :)
Oh that was lovely! I really enjoyed seeing the kids pride in their Nona! Xxxxx
I love this Vicky! Such a great partnership idea. I love it when advertising actually makes sense and it was wonderful to see the nonne watch the film! This looks like a delicious dish too!
hi Tom, I'm glad you approve; it's the first collaboration I've agreed to because it made sense to me too. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Love this episode. Great dish. Plus, love the food processor. Also, the nonna is great.
Delicious... nice to see your grandsons love for you
Love it!! So sweet to see the reactions to the movie trailer! 💖
I love those little basil bundles. I’ve got two plants in my garden I’ve used leaves from quite a few times. But next year, I realize I should actually have more. I’ll get 6 each of basil, cilantro and parsley, so I always have a good supply. Looks so delicious and relatively simple to make.
hi Marilyn, growing your own herbs makes a world of difference! best wishes, Vicky
Loved this episode especially
I love learning from the grannies! Looks so delicious! Boys are precious watching granny! Loved the grannies watching the movie!!!!
So much joy in this video.
Bellisimo xxxx
It's Saturday the 26th July 0718 in Australia eastern coast and I'm waking up. First RUclips I have watched today is this episode of pasta grannies. I'm happy now. Thank you everyone.x
I always imagine folk settling down to an episode with their supper, but I think waking up with one is even better! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
@@pastagrannies thanks everyone. Stay safe.
this is he sweetest one yet!! love it
Thes videos are just so peaceful to watch. Also the lasagna looked fantastic. I am definitely gonna try it❤️
Amazing (local) pesto recipe and mixing it with the Bechamel is a brilliant way to change up the lasagne. I love the ease that Bianca feels as she throws together a quick lasagne for his grandsons mid-morning. All in a average day's work for her.
Thank you Vicky and team for another great video. Will never tire of watching lasagne or pizza videos from Italy.
Thanks Greg! My husband always jokes I could post a video about lasagna (or pizza) every week and everyone would be happy - it really is comfort food at its best, isn't it. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
I really appreciate the reaction on the faces of all the lovely grannies watching the animation video, and of course the recipe of pasta grannies Bianca too. How sweet she is... ! 🌻💕
I love this channel from japan
I have recently become pescetarian, and this lasagna recipe looks awesome, can't wait to try!
I just love this channel...so refreshing ❤️
YES nonna, you can hugs your grandchildren!!!!! Do it!!
Amen.
So nice the boys saw their grandma love it ❤❤
So glad I found this channel which brings me joy - I have just ordered a casserole dish to try making this recipe. I would love it buy a book from you if you put these recipes into one...I'm sure there are many others who would also
I love EVERYTHING about this video and the trailer!! Bravi!!
you bring such tenderness and genuinity by creating this channel to this world which in dire need of positivity and smiles
Thank you Aiden, I'm glad you enjoy it 😊🌺🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Oh how fun, loved that the boys got to stay and watch. Yummy looking lasagna! So fun to see all the Grannies watch the movie, their reactions are priceless. Makes you want to reach across the screen and hug them all. Patti
Great episode. Almost the same dish from Luca. Without the bechamel and lasagna. I love that movie
Luca is such a fantastic movie - superb and heartwarming. Now when can I come over for this Lasagna!!! Magnifico!
This is perfect! I just picked my own homegrown basil last night! 😊😆🥬
That's the beauty of Italy. I'm Italian but have never heard of this recipe!
Ooowwwn I love their reactions to the trailler. So cute genuine pasta grannies. One of my favorite channels. It makes me remember of my lovely italian grandmas 🥰
I have never see anything like this dish, really great
What an original (and surely yummy) take on Lasagne. The grandsons are the best. Totally fascinated by the process and enthralled with the taste! Thank you to all
Thank you for sharing your fabulous recipe❤️
Mmmmm this recipe looks amazing!
Goes to show that even a lasagna can be made relatively healthy
Eat delicious food and then have long periods of fasting! This is how our bodies evolved. 3 meals a day 18 hours of feeding is what is unhealthy.
@@robspecht9550 I have begun to fast each day. I only eat during a 6 hour period. I start at 1pm and stop at 7pm so 6 hours per day of being allowed food then 18 hours of fasting. I was dubious at first but it has really helped me improve my health, my sleeping, my weight is much easier to control and keep steady and it has helped my digestion and complexion as well. I really think it should be promoted as a good way of life and more people should try it just for one month and see if it improves their health.
Is it really healthy though??? lol. Delicious definitely.
@@FlyOrDie4988 Absolutely nothing wrong with oil, butter, eggs as they are fats and protein and do not spike insulin. Sugar and carbohydrates (which are made of a single sugar molecule to thousands of sugar molecules attached together) spike insulin and insulin is a fat storing hormone. The healthy bits about this dish are in fact, the oil, butter, basil, pine nuts, cheese, eggs and green beans. Pasta, as much as I love it (I have Italian heritage) is a carbohydrate and, if you're insulin resistant (or even type 2 diabetic) it just spikes blood glucose and fat storage. I know it's hard to believe because it goes against everything we've been told these past five decades of eating "low-fat" and 'healthy' grains.
@@robspecht9550 I have an eight hour "eating window". I feel better for it and lost 20 kilos with no effort. There was a recent study that showed that even cutting down eating to 12 hours a day had health benefits. The benefits increased as the amount of time allowed for eating decreased, down to eight hours a day. They didn't see any further benefit by limiting it more. This was, however, a short term study over a period of several months, not years or decades.
Grandma's are the best!!
Che buone le lasagne al pesto! Queste sembrano fantastiche 😋😍
Bianca is a beautiful lady! I bet the dinner was delicious 😋 I love the Pixar movies! Thanks for sharing Vicky! 😍🤗💕💋💖
hi Russell, the Luca sound track had us all bobbing around in the ladies' kitchens! And yes, Bianca's lasagna is fab. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Love this video. I think i've have to give this recipe a go, it looks delicious.
Just made this recipe! Absolutely brilliant recipe!!! I want to eat it forever!
I ate 20min ago and ifeel so hungry now, lol! Che bontà, mamma mia!
I just watched Luca and thought the same about the cat, right before you explained it too! Hahah!
I Love this channel so much. Makes me miss my Granny. ✨💚
best of all...family, food and film!!!
The basil pesto looks beautiful
This is a really great channel, thank you so much for doing those wonderful videos !
Two things I am wondering:
- do the wonderful nonnas or nonnos always do their pasta dough, or do they sometimes also pasta from a shop (concerns all episodes I have been seeing so far) ?
- when was this episode filmed ? I wonder because the grandsons of Bianca are wearing masks in the house
P.S. fun fact for me and maybe other fans of Commissario Montalbano (from Andrea Cammilleri) - his long time fiance Livia lives in Boccadasse. Now I finally know where it is ;-)
It's actually part of Genoa itself. Has been since 1873. Then in the Thirties, several more villages were incorporated into the city, which expanded way further in both directions (east and west, or, as the Genoese say, Levante and Ponente), as well as into the Bisagno and Polcevera river valleys (you might be familiar with the latter because of the bridge collapse). You can literally walk to Boccadasse from one of the two main railway stations in Genoa. Re your question: there are hardly any 'native' Genoese anymore - we're all mixed. But up until World War II, semolina pasta was not very popular in Northern Italy overall. My Mum, who was from the Lombard-speaking area of Piedmont, used to say that she only first saw spaghetti after the war. And my Dad, who was Genoese (or Sampierdarenese, as he would have been keen to point out), was VERY partial to fresh pasta. Everyone made fresh pasta at home. We made it every week, on Sundays, regularly, and on weekdays as well, sometimes. People have less time today, and eat less pasta overall. However, the small outlets from supermarket chains that have replaced local shops in every neighbourhood offer plenty of fresh pasta options. So people do eat semolina pasta, but lots of fresh pasta too. Not necessarily hand-made, unless you're a retired lady with time on her hands. I do still prefer to make my own, at least on weekends. For instance, I'll be making herb-filled ravioli for dinner tonight.
@@Ardoxsho Thanks a lot for your answer and the interesting information, much appreciated. Do you live in Boccadasse ? I have just watched a short video of it, and it really looks beautiful. The herb-filled ravioli sound really tasty, enjoy.
very interesting, thank you Ardoxsho! 😊🌺🌺
My grandma never ever buys factory-made fresh pasta. When she makes pasta, she makes large batches of ravioli, tagliatelle, lasagne, what have you and then divides them into portions and freezes them, so they're ready to use whenever she wants.
Working people though don't really have the time to make fresh pasta by hand, so they'll buy it ready made or (if they're lucky and have a pasta granny) they'll rely on their grandma to make it for them 🤗
Dried pasta is another story (penne, spaghetti, fusilli etc. are dried pasta). The vast majority of people in Italy, including grandmas, buy dried pasta instead of making it.
Il basilico della Liguria é il migliore al mondo!
Speechless!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
grannies watching the trailer was so cute!
So Wholesome
I watched Luca and liked it! My wife wished it was longer!
Coincidentally I was thinking of pesto pasta that was in Luca
hi James, we filmed a 96 year old make trenette al pesto, the pesto pasta you see in Luca. I will post her episode at some point over the summer. best wishes, Vicky
Grannies and pasta are the best🥰👍
Ms. Vicky, another great recipe by pastagranni Bianca, being Irish, you had me at potatoes & beans, lol, I like all the other ingredients also. I'm sorry, but in Appalachia we have no recipe near to this one by Bianca. God bless everyone
hi Steve, this lasagna is carb heaven! Add more potatoes if you wish! As Ardoxsho says, it was a way of making precious wheat flour go further. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
@@pastagrannies ty Ms. Vicky, being Irish I can never have to many potatoes until I am full, lol, God bless you all
LUCA is a great movie. I just watched it in the theater. This lasagna looks amazing! Really wanna try it :P
Love this channel!
Bianca is a TREASURE.
A great idea to make lasagne! I’ll try soon.
Loved this!!
Lasagna with pesto, I could only imagine how good this will taste. Will this recipe be available in your next book? I learned how to make pesto from a long time friend from Genoa but have not made it with lasagna, yet. Buon Appetito. Love your videos and presentations. 🌿🍽
hi Steve, yes this recipe will be in book 2 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
That looks so goooood.
The cat is Boccadasse's mascotte, his name is Seppia (squid). All locals loves he. ❤
Cuttlefish to be precise
Massimo Palomba - Thank you for explaining that. 🙏🙂 He is a lovely cat. 😊
Her lasagna looks so decadent and creamy✨✨✨
So good and so cute!!❤
Grande Sig. Bianca deve essere squisita complimenti👍👍👍😘😘😘
I love Bianca's glasses. She's defo a cool granny 😎
Hey, I love pesto, I love lasagna, I know I am going to love this! May have to cheat on the pasta sheets though!
i didn't know this recipe. going to try it this weekend! 😋
What a nice nonna!
The thinness of that pasta! Sigh. Amazing.
That looks delicious.
OMG - that pesto ❤️ Great video!
Can we just take a moment and send Italy some love.... their beloved elders got hit so hard by Covid.
Love this channel
I really like Bianca.
I really wanna try this recipe;;;-;;
Something touching 💙
Great 👍 a lot of love ❤ from Pakistan ❤ 🇵🇰
Love this one!!!!
Lindo lindo... Belo belíssimo 👏🏻👏🏻 .. Que delícia essa LASANHA 🥧🧀🧀😋😋😋😋❤❤ ... Gostaria de conhecer esse País lindo que é a ITÁLIA.. Ótimo trabalho de vcs... obrigado 🙏 🇧🇷