Easy Vegan Pesto (10 Mins)

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Easy Vegan Pesto (10 Mins)

Easy and Delicious Vegan Pesto. Use with pasta, salads, over pizza, over garlic bread, roasted veggies, wraps! Nut-free option. Vegan gluten-free soy-free Recipe

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Course: Side

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: dairy free pesto, easy vegan pesto, nut free pesto, vegan pesto recipe

Servings:

Author: Vegan Richa

Ingredients

1 cup packed fresh basil
1 cup spinach or baby kale, or loosely packed parsley, cilantro or more basil
2 tbsp sunflower seeds or hemp seeds
3 tbsp pine nuts or pecans or use almonds, cashews, walnuts, (hemp seeds or more sunflower seeds for nutfree)
2 cloves of garlic
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp nutritional yeast , optional, add a cheesy flavor, or use vegan parmesan of choice
zest of half a lemon or use lemon juice to taste
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
water as needed
black pepper , red pepper flakes or other flavor addition

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Instructions

Add basil, spinach, sunflower seeds, pecans, garlic, salt, nutritional yeast, lemon zest to a food processor. Process until a coarse mixture.
Add olive oil and a tbsp or so water. and process again. Add more water if needed to make a homogeneous mixture.
Taste and adjust flavor. Add more oil to preference, adjust salt, add more nutritional yeast for cheesier. Use with pasta, salads, over pizza, over garlic bread, in sandwiches with roasted veggies and other applications.
Store refrigerated for upto 5 days. Freeze in ice cubes.

Notes

Nut-free: Use a combination of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and hemp seeds instead of the nuts.

Tip: if using large nuts of harder nuts, pulse just the nuts first to make into a coarse meal then add basil etc.

Nutrition is for 1 serve of 4.

Nutrition

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