Katrin
Recipe: Green pesto with almonds
Published: 5. May 2020
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Homemade pesto is made quick and easy, you only need a few ingredients. The pesto is perfect with pasta, in your salad or as a spread on bread.
The almonds also provide you with important unsaturated fatty acids and essential micronutrients such as vitamin E, calcium, magnesium and folic acid.
Green pesto with almonds
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 70 g almonds
- 15 g pine nuts
- 70 g baby leaf spinach
- a few basil leaves
- ½ lemon
- 1-2 garlic cloves
- 4 tbsp of olive oil
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- First, put the almonds and pine nuts in a small mixer and chop them.
- Next, add the spinach and basil leaves and mix everything again.
- Squeeze half a lemon and then add the lemon juice to the mix.
- Put the 2 garlic cloves in a garlic press and add them to the pesto.
- Finally, add 4 tablespoons of olive oil and mix well in your blender. Season the pesto to taste, we have used salt and pepper.
Katrin
Neben meiner Tätigkeit in der kreativen Content Production wie Fotografie schreibe ich auch regelmäßig für den Blog. Ansonsten interessiere ich mich sehr für Themen wie Nachhaltigkeit und gesunde Ernährung und liebe es, diese spannend aufzubereiten.
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