Showing posts with label pesto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pesto. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Vegan Pesto

My husband loves to make his limbo spaghetti sauce.  I call it Limbo sauce because to me Pasta Sauce either takes 20 minutes or 7 hours, nothing in between.  He adds garlic, love and a few sprigs of basil to crushed tomatoes and simmers it for a couple hours.  Its more therapy than cooking and we are always left with a bunch of basil that goes bad really quickly.  Scavenger that I am, I turn it to pesto and freeze if Im not able to eat it immediately.
Pine Nuts are like eating gold, so I have been experimenting with alternative nuts and found walnuts have a beautiful earthy taste.

Soak a cup of Walnuts for atleast 3 hours.
Place them in the cuisinart and to them add:
2 cloves of garlic
a pinch of salt (himilayan pink if you have)
1-2 cups of cleaned basil leaves
1/3 cup of nutritional yeast flakes
1 and 1/2 fingers of olive oil- pour this over the mixture until
it fills the negative space about 1-1.5 fingers high

pulse till smooth

Great to have on sliced tomatoes- with Daiya Vegan Mozzerella or fresh real mozzerella and balsamic Vinegar reduction garnish poured atop.