Pistou Sauce or French Pesto ( Vegan )
"Pistou is the French version of pesto - there are no pine nuts and commonly the parmesan cheese is replaced with coarse salt. Use this any way you'd normally use Italian pesto! Adapted from The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen, by Donna Klein. This recipe was picked for the Freeze It recipe tag game, and I've added the OAMC instructions from Chef Mommy Needs Coffee and the OAMC Forum below."
photo by Enjolinfam
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
-
3/4 cup
ingredients
- 1 cup fresh basil, packed
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1⁄4 teaspoon coarse salt
- black pepper, to taste
directions
- Combine everything in a food processor and process until smooth.
- Alternatively, you can finely chop the basil and mix it with the other ingredients.
- Serve on bread, pasta or pizza.
- OAMC --- To freeze: Place in a quart sized freezer bag. Seal, label and freeze.
- To thaw: place in fridge overnight or place bag in a bowl of room temperature water for a few minutes.
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Reviews
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Wow, this was terrific pesto for such few ingredients! I doubled the recipe and we enjoyed it with some homemade bread. I've never made pesto before because I can't get any pine nuts where I am living now, but this recipe was perfect as is. Thanks for a new regualar! -
This was great! We deal with multiple food allergies and have to avoid dairy and tree nuts, so this was the perfect recipe for us. I used a blender (no food processor). This would have worked well with a doubled recipe, but there was not enough volume to get a single batch very smooth. I used a mortar & pestle to finish grinding. This was made for "Freeze It!" Tag and it kept beautifully in a quart freezer ziplock bag. I thawed the pistou sauce by placing the bag in a pan of room temperature water for a few minutes. We tossed this with hot thin rice noodles - yum! Just as good as when it was freshly made. Thanks for posting, kburie!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
Amber:
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Charlotte (May 27, 1992-June 1, 2009):
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Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
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