Plant Based Pesto
Serves 410 mins prep10 mins cook
A vibrant and tasty plant-based pesto recipe perfect for mixing with your favorite pasta. It's easy to make with fresh ingredients, and the resulting sauce is creamy, fragrant, and packed with flavor. Enjoy it straight from the bowl or pack in @sistema_uk containers for a delicious meal at work.
0 servings
What you need
Instructions
1: Toast the walnuts in a pan or in the oven until golden & fragrant (around 5 minutes). Leave to cool. 2: Blanch the basil in boiling water then put into ice water to cool, then squeeze out excess moisture. 3: Mince the garlic, get the juice of ½ the lemon & put in a food processor with the basil, walnuts & nutritional yeast. 4: Begin to blitz, then slowly stream in the olive oil until a creamy, silky pesto sauce forms. 5: Season to taste with salt, pepper & more lemon, garlic or nutritional yeast if needed. 6: Get your pasta onto boil in salted water, reserving 1tbsp of pasta water at the end to loosen the pesto. 7: Serving time – get the pasta into bowls, stir in the pesto & enjoy!View original recipe