PESTO PACECOTO O TRAPANESE

 

Garlic is the most important ingredient of pesto trapanese, made of tomato, garlic, basil and almonds: crushed together with a pestle and mortar and mixed with olive oil and served as a raw condiment for the pasta cull’agghia – Pasta with garlic. A typical lunch of the Paceco area is cod water soup of dried bread, tomatoes and agghia pistata (crushed garlic).