This vegan spinach and basil pesto is super easy to make, healthy and delicious. You can add this pesto sauce to various things such as pasta, potato, pizza and sandwich.
I bought a big packet of spinach few days ago for my curry cooking but had still a lot of it left. There was a still good amount left in the bag even after using it for the curry, salad and sauté.
I decided to make pesto sauce to use up all of the spinach. It would be a good way to add more nutrients to the sauce as well.
To make this vegan spinach and basil pesto you only need: spinach, basil, oil, nuts (I used mixed nuts including almonds, brazil nuts, hazel nuts and walnuts as it was all I had), garlic, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, salt and black pepper. You just need to put everything in a beaker and pulse with a hand blender until smooth and saucy. You can do this with a food processor as well.
The pesto sauce came out delicious with a good flavour of the spinach and the basil. I made pasta dish with the sauce and we all enjoyed it☻
If you have some spinach in the fridge I recommend you try this recipe. It’s so easy and yummy! Alternatively you can use kale instead of spinach if that’s what you’ve got☺
Vegan Spinach and Basil Pesto
Ingredients
- 80 g fresh spinach washed and drained
- 30 g fresh basil washed and drained
- 50 g olive oil sunflower oil or vegetable oil is fine too
- 1 clove fresh garlic 1 tsp of garlic puree is fine too
- 30 g mixed nuts *avoid peanuts
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 heap tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Put all of the ingredients in a beaker and pulse with a hand blender until smooth and saucy. You can used a food processor to do this if you haven't got a hand blender.