Recipe: Green pesto with almonds

Homemade pesto is made quick and easy, you only need a few ingredients. The pesto is perfect with pasta, in your salad or as a spread on bread. 

The almonds also provide you with important unsaturated fatty acids and essential micronutrients such as vitamin E, calcium, magnesium and folic acid.

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Green pesto with almonds

Prep Time15 mins

Total Time15 mins

Servings: 8

Ingredients

• 70 g almonds
• 15 g pine nuts
• 70 g baby leaf spinach
• a few basil leaves
• ½ lemon
• 1-2 garlic cloves
• 4 tbsp of olive oil
• salt and pepper

Instructions

• First, put the almonds and pine nuts in a small mixer and chop them. 
• Next, add the spinach and basil leaves and mix everything again.
• Squeeze half a lemon and then add the lemon juice to the mix.
• Put the 2 garlic cloves in a garlic press and add them to the pesto. 
• Finally, add 4 tablespoons of olive oil and mix well in your blender. Season the pesto to taste, we have used salt and pepper.

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