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.
Total Time: 10 – 15 minutes
Preparation: 5 – 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 5 minutes
Updated July 8, 2011 (These are approximate measures. I forgot to note down the quantity after preparing the pesto)
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Spinach
- 1/2 cup fresh Cilantro
- 1/2 cup Walnuts
- 4 Garlic Cloves
- 4 Green Chilies
- 2 tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil + some extra to top off the pesto
- 1/4 tsp. Salt
- 1/8 tsp. fresh Ground Black Pepper
Preparation:
- Tear spinach into small pieces.
- Wash cilantro, green chilies and chop into small pieces.
- Toast the walnuts.
- Let them cool.
- Put all the ingredients in a food processing jar.
- Process it for until it is a nice paste.
- 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.
This is my entry to Vardhini’s Dish it Out – Spinach & Garlic.
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We love this combo..I use this pesto is making pasta.
this looks absoloutely yummy..great with pasta
Nice and healthy.
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..
Love it Usha. Never knew we could make pesto with spinach. Got to give it a try.
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Spinach pesto looks stunning,healthy and wonderful..
green color looks inviting healthy pesto
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wow, that looks delicious and love your step by step beautiful and mouth watering pics.
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
Love that color!
usha this is wonderful…disguised!!…since i dont like paalak…i will love it in this form…thnks sweetie..for the wonderful recipe:)
super recipe…just made it and am now enjoying it 🙂