Vegan Pesto

Submitted by Shmily Vegan

"You can put this on almost anything! I've tried every vegan pesto recipe that I've seen and this is by far my favorite. It's taken, with a slight variation, from http://vegetarian.about.com/od/morerecipes/r/Veganpestorec.htm"

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 cup pine nuts (you can use walnuts too)
• 1⁄3 cup olive oil (For a lower fat version replace half the oil with soy milk)
• 1⁄3 cup nutritional yeast
• 1 1⁄2 cups fresh basil
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
• 3 -5 garlic cloves

directions

1. Combine all the ingredients except the cloves of garlic into a food processor until everything is ground. I personally like it smoother than normal so I let the food processor run for a bit longer.
2. Combine in the cloves of garlic one at a time and keep doing taste tests until you feel there is enough (be careful not to chop your finger off with the food processor -- it really kills the pesto).
3. Add more salt and pepper to taste and enjoy!

Reviews

[sallysueandyou]

Not a good recipe. The paste was way to thick to even remotely resemble pesto, 3 garlic cloves are too much and this does not yield 4-6 servings! all in all I got a litte more than a cup out of it... hardly feeds 6 people.

 

[kween_bee3]

Soo amazing thank you! Don't miss the parm at all.

 

[Wish I Could Cook]

I loved this! I drizzled the oil in at the end so I got the consistency I wanted and it turned out that I only used about half the oil. I used sea salt and should not have because the crystals were too big. But I think they'll disolve. Overall a wonderfully good and easy pesto!

 

[EmilyStrikesAgain]

Very good, quick and easy. I used half pine nuts and half walnuts. I'm a garlic nut but thought the 2 large cloves I added were overpowering! So listen to the directions- add a clove at a time and taste before adding more.

 

[basya]

This is a great parve pesto recipe. Try it on Challah on Shabbat! We can't stop eating this.