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    Home » By Ingredient » Vegetables » Spinach

    Published: Jun 20, 2011 · Modified: Dec 27, 2019 by Usha Rao

    Spinach Pesto

    For day five of the marathon, I prepared spinach pesto sauce. I used this pesto to make pasta salad for lunch. I was going to share even the salad recipe today. I added too many vegetables to the salad and was not totally satisfied with the salad. Will share the salad some other time. I adapted this recipe and did not use cheese. I made a few changes to this recipe according to my taste.

    Spinach Pesto

    Total Time: 10 - 15 minutes
    Preparation: 5 - 10 minutes
    Cooking Time: 5 minutes

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    Updated July 8, 2011 (These are approximate measures. I forgot to note down the quantity after preparing the pesto)
    Ingredients:

    • 2 cups Spinach
    • ½ cup fresh Cilantro
    • ½ cup Walnuts
    • 4 Garlic Cloves
    • 4 Green Chilies
    • 2 tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil + some extra to top off the pesto
    • ¼ tsp. Salt
    • ⅛ tsp. fresh Ground Black Pepper

    Preparation:

    1. Tear spinach into small pieces.
    2. Wash cilantro, green chilies and chop into small pieces.
    3. Toast the walnuts.
    4. Let them cool.
    5. Put all the ingredients in a food processing jar.
    6. Process it for until it is a nice paste.
    7. Transfer to a bowl, pour little more extra virgin oil to cover the pesto and refrigerate. My pesto was fresh for almost a week in the fridge. I made pesto pasta and made sandwiches couple of times.

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    1. Pushpa says

      July 14, 2011 at 9:36 am

      super recipe...just made it and am now enjoying it 🙂

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    2. vaishali says

      June 25, 2011 at 6:23 am

      usha this is wonderful...disguised!!...since i dont like paalak...i will love it in this form...thnks sweetie..for the wonderful recipe:)

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    3. Suma Gandlur says

      June 21, 2011 at 4:53 pm

      Love that color!

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    4. shruthi says

      June 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm

      Very nice dish usha i tell u. we love pesto in our sandwiches. i ll try making them. need to get walnuts this weeknd while i go out for grocery shopping

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    5. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says

      June 21, 2011 at 11:08 am

      wow, that looks delicious and love your step by step beautiful and mouth watering pics.

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    6. santosh says

      June 21, 2011 at 3:14 am

      green color looks inviting healthy pesto
      1st time here wonderful space do visit my site

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    7. Priya says

      June 21, 2011 at 2:24 am

      Spinach pesto looks stunning,healthy and wonderful..

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    8. Vardhini says

      June 21, 2011 at 2:00 am

      Love it Usha. Never knew we could make pesto with spinach. Got to give it a try.

      Vardhini
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    9. Srivalli says

      June 21, 2011 at 1:39 am

      Love that green colour usha and your blender is so cute too..planning to get one like that..not sure if we get it here..

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    10. Jayashree says

      June 21, 2011 at 1:02 am

      Nice and healthy.

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    11. Aarthi says

      June 21, 2011 at 12:07 am

      this looks absoloutely yummy..great with pasta

      Reply
    12. harini-jaya says

      June 20, 2011 at 9:31 pm

      We love this combo..I use this pesto is making pasta.

      Reply

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