Your Pesto Will Pop With Vibrant Color If You Blanch The Basil First - Chowhound

Westend61/Getty Images Blending up a batch of homemade basil pesto is always time well spent. But have you ever felt frustrated that your precisely prepared pesto doesn't have the same photogenic finish as your recipe's? Photoshop and professional lighting aside, food stylists have an easy hack to keep their basil pesto vibrantly green — blanching the basil leaves beforehand. Basil, like other plants, contains…