The machine is suitable to weigh, crumble and mix a wide range of vegetables to obtain pasty finished products like ‘pesto’ (‘basil Genovese pesto’, dried tomatoes pesto), patés (artichokes, olives, mushrooms, etc.), chickpeas hummus, tahini, creams, sauces, vegetables or fruits mashes, etc. In particular the cutting machine can automatically work within production lines for the semi-processed base of the ‘basil Genovese pesto’. In such plants, the machine is equipped with loading conveyors, ingredient dosing systems onto the loading cells and PLC for the management of processing cycle.