Recipe

light saucy pesto sauce

Name: light saucy pesto sauce
Yield: about 2 C of sauce
Ingredients: 1/4 pine nuts (or more if you love pine nuts); 2 C packed fresh basil (equivelant to one large bag from the store); 2 C packed baby spinach salad leaves; 4 garlic cloves (or more or less depending on how you feel about garlic. You can even leave it out.); 1 1/2 C grated parmesean cheese.; 1/2 tsp. lemon juice; 1/4 tsp. salt; 1/4 tsp. pepper; 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

Shared by heidi

Yield: about 2 C of sauce

Ingredients

1/4 pine nuts (or more if you love pine nuts)
2 C packed fresh basil (equivelant to one large bag from the store)
2 C packed baby spinach salad leaves
4 garlic cloves (or more or less depending on how you feel about garlic. You can even leave it out.)
1 1/2 C grated parmesean cheese.
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

1
Toast pine nuts for 8-10 min. at 350 degrees F. A toaster oven works great for this.
2
In a food processor, blend up all the ingredients until it is a smooth paste.
3
It can be frozen or eaten immediatly with about a pound of pasta and some cherry tomatoes or other veggies. Also for use in pesto pizza or any other place pesto can be found.