Vegan Pesto
Vegan Pesto You'll Want to Put on Everything
If basil is bursting from your garden and you've always wanted to make homemade pesto, but don't love that it can be high in calories (one scoop serving is 276 calories), here's a lower-cal recipe that delivers all that fresh, sweet basil flavour, but with fewer calories and no cholesterol.
Vegans, Paleo people, and others avoiding dairy, rejoice! This recipe involves no cheese, so you can really savour the deliciously bold basil flavour. This recipe couldn't be easily to whip up, and once you do, use it to top toasted bread or pizza dough instead of tomato sauce. Add it to warm pasta with peas, or stir it into roasted vegetables to add to risotto.
Vegan Basil Pesto
From Jenny Sugar, POPSUGAR Fitness
Notes
Be sure to choose leaves from a basil plant that hasn't yet flowered — the flowers can make the leaves taste bitter.
Ingredients
- 30 grams fresh basil leaves
1 clove garlic
65 grams pine nuts
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
45ml extra-virgin olive oil
Directions
- Place the basil, garlic, pine nuts, and salt in a food processor, and blend until combined but slightly coarse.
- Add the olive oil, and blend until smooth.
- Use it right away or store it in the fridge (one week) or freezer (up to three months).
Yields about 1 small jar of pesto. Below is the nutritional info for a scoop serving.
Source: Calorie King
Information
- Category
- Condiments/Sauces
- Yield
- 1 cup; 4 servings
- Total Time
- 9 minutes, 59 seconds
Nutrition
- Calories per serving
- 226
