SkinnyMediterranean: Green Pesto

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Skinnymixer’s Green Pesto features in the Basics section of the cookbook SkinnyMediterranean. 

The Green Pesto is a cookbook exclusive recipe…

Bursting with flavour, this Green Pesto is delicious to use as a dip or to stir through pasta. When basil is in season, freeze some portions for easy dinners. 

We use this Green Pesto in the Green Pesto Rice & the Creamy Pesto Chicken recipes in SkinnyMediterranean. 

You can use this delicious, perfectly balanced pesto on a grazing board, to stuff Chicken Kievs or make your own pasta sauce. 

Homemade pesto will last in the fridge for up to 3 days, I love to freeze in portions to have it on hand all the time (especially when basil isn’t in season!).

Please feel free to process until your preferred consistency is reached. I prefer to keep mine a little chunky.

What you will need:

• baby spinach
• cracked black pepper
• fresh basil leaves
• garlic
• lemon zest
• olive oil
• Parmesan or pecorino cheese
• raw macadamias or toasted pine nuts (cashews, almonds and sunflower seeds will work too!)
• salt

Dietary Variations

For this recipe we have variations for:

✔️ Dairy Free
✔️ Nut Free
✔️ Lower Calorie
✔️ Paleo
✔️ Low Fodmap 

Want to know more about our SkinnyMediterranean cookbook? 

Inside SkinnyMediterranean you’ll find 60+ fresh, flavour-packed recipes inspired by Greece, Italy, France, Morocco & the Middle East — with both Thermo cooker and traditional methods included. Think share plates, vibrant salads, speedy midweek dinners, family favourites, chef specials and the most delicious sweets

This page exists to help people find what cookbook the Green Pesto is in and also to provide a basic shopping list for when you are out and about and have forgotten your eBook or shopping list. (Handy I know!). Plus extra recipe information – tips, FAQs and videos.

If you love this recipe you may also like to try: 

• Red Pesto
• Red Pesto Chicken Salad
• THMII: Creamy Pesto Sauce
• SMENT: Creamy Pesto Potato Salad