Oelala! Pesto is so delicious! As a sauce to accompany your pasta, your gnocchi, your orzo, as a filling for your ravioli as a salad dressing or as a dip on a drinks board. You read it: that pesto will turn up. Now you can buy that pesto in a jar, but even more delicious and special is when you make it yourself. Our culi Anne has an easy recipe for the tastiest vegan pesto. Her secret? Not Parmesan but noble yeast. Bring on this recipe!
Vegan pesto?
Pesto is a flavourful sauce from Italy, made from fresh ingredients such as basil, pine nuts, garlic, Parmesan cheese and olive oil. These are finely ground into a fantastic green sauce. But that Parmesan, a key seasoning in pesto, is not free from animal cruelty. Indeed, it is often not even vegetarian. The rennet found in Parmesan cheese is usually extracted from the stomach of a dead calf. So traditional green pesto is not exactly vegan, not even completely vegetarian in other words. Since I don't eat animal products, I want my pesto to be vegan too. And it can be done just fine! I am happy to show it to you!
You see: for a homemade vegan pesto, you don't need many ingredients.
Ta-da: the tastiest vegan pesto is very easy to make yourself!
Kitchenware
- food processor(Or hand blender and measuring cup/bowl.)
- frying pan
Ingredients
- 1 pot plant basil
- 1 generous handful of parsley
- 2 el juice of one lemon
- plenty of sea salt
- 4 el pine nuts
- 1-3 toes garlic
- 4 el edelgist flakes
- 4 el olive oil
Instructions
- Briefly toast the pine nuts without oil or butter in a pan. Let them cool on a plate.
- Place the garlic, lemon, edelgist flakes, toasted pine nuts, handful of parsley and basil leaves in a food processor and grind until green.
- Add the olive oil little by little and mix well. The pesto should not be too dry, but not too oily either.
- Finally, season the pesto with salt.
This pesto is super delicious with This plant-based Italian drinks board.
More easy recipes from thegreenlist.nl
- An ideal weekend meal, we think This vegan fries hair salon made from jackfruit.
- Looking for an easy casserole? Then check out this fennel dish!
- Ideal for weekends and weekdays is This dry green beans and potato curry. Nice and cheap too!
Photo credits: thegreenlist.nl.
