Basic Pesto

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Recipe submitted by music@lightspeed.bc.ca

Basic Pesto

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

2 cup basil leaves
2 tablespoon pine nuts
2 oz. grated, vegan Parmesan or nutritional yeast flakes
2-3 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup olive oil
salt and pepper

Directions:

Put all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor and mix thoroughly. Adjust the amount of olive oil as needed.

Serves: 2

Preparation time: 10

great recipe I like to make my pesto with a bit of parsley added, it complaments the basil also instead parmeson cheese I add grated,crushe'd or powdered almonds for texture and just deal with the stlightly different taste

Archived comment by: natasha

I make a batch and freeze in 2oz cups - use all winter. Great fast meal w pasta. Also, I like adding handful of fresh Terragonto the mixer. Taste is better.

Archived comment by: fred16

Walnuts work well too, much less expensive. Also, an use fresh spinach leaves w teragon.

Archived comment by: fred16

I made a variation on this recipe tonight and it was great! I substituded almonds for pine nuts and topped the plate of pasta and sauce with fresh chopped garden tomatoes and orange peppers. Very tasty!

Archived comment by: carrie

Is there any way to reduce the olive oil content without changing the flavor drastically?

Archived comment by: teri

Thank you for the Pesto. It is delicious. I never made it before. And eat it now regular Thanks Martina

Archived comment by: martina

acutally you can make vegan parmesan...i thought i got the recipe here, but it was so long ago. take 1/2 c. almonds, 2 T nutritional flakes, 1 t onion powder, 1 t garlic powder, 1 t sea salt and put it all in the food processor and grind it up... you will not know the difference!!! it is awesome!! keep it in an airtight container and it will stay fresh for a long time!!

Archived comment by: tawny

btw for anyone who is interested the vegan parmesan alternative i found it at my local health food store next to the dairy products. its made by soyco, or galaxy foods. watch out b/c they have more than one parmesan alternatives and some of their other products do have casein in them. this product says VEGAN in big bold letters. i tried it out w/this recipe and it worked great!!!

Archived comment by: veganxpower

Hello, I noticed that someone wanted to know if reduceing the olive oil content would really change the recipe... It will, but personaly I think that using about half the olive oil and replaceing the other half with lemon jucie gives it wonderful flavor and is more healthy.

Archived comment by: renees85