Homemade Pesto without Cheese
You can have this cheesy and easy vegan pesto recipe ready in only 20 minutes! You only need a handful of ingredients to make this vegan version of the classic recipe. It only takes a few steps to make this vegan version of the classic pesto. For the best result use a mortar when making this pesto.
Ingredients
- 50 g pine nuts
- 40 g fresh basil store bought plant (big)
- ¼ solo garlic
- 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- 50 ml olive oil extra virgin
- a pinch of salt
Instructions
- First, roast the pine nuts in a pan on low heat until golden, this brings out the nutty flavor. Keep an eye on them while frying to make sure they do not get burned. Once the pine nuts are roasted toss them over in a small bowl or something similar. This is to take them out of the warm pan.
- Roughly chop the garlic and add it to your mortar and grind.
- Add the roasted pine nuts to your mortar and grind them together with the garlic.
- Roughly chop the fresh basil leaves and add them to your mortar, with the pine nuts and garlic. Grind the ingredients into a paste.You can use the stems of the plant as well, not just the fresh basil leaves. Everything is getting grinded together so we can use the whole plant.
- Add the nutritional yeast, lemon juice, olive oil and a pinch of salt to the mortar and stir it all together with a spoon – and there you go, I told you it was easy.The nutritional yeast is a substitute for Parmesan cheese. This ingredient gives that extra cheesy flavor.The lemon juice adds a lot of freshness to the pesto.
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