Healthy Pesto

This easy pesto recipe is for 1-2 portions, but feel free to increase quantities as necessary to keep plenty to hand in your fridge.

You can also freeze it in ice cube trays for future use to save time and effort later.

Feel free to use frozen herbs if you don’t have fresh and leave out pine nuts and increase the nutritional yeast quantity instead if you are allergic to nuts.

Ingredients

1 Handful Fresh Basil
10g Pine Nuts
2 tsp Garlic
1 tsp Lemon Juice
1 tbsp Nutritional Yeast

Recipe

1) Place all ingredients into a blender.

2) Blend all ingredients until fully combined and smooth or to desired consistency.

Enjoy your pesto over pasta, drizzled over the top of your salad/side dishes or other healthy meals.

Top Tips

If there are any ingredients that you do not like in any of the recipes, then feel free to swap them out for another food choice within the same food category (grains, beans & other legumes, fruit, veg, nuts & seeds).

You can also use frozen fruit or veg when you don’t have the fresh option.

Don’t forget to keep the skins on your veg where possible for essential added fibre and nutrition.

Why not try some other healthy meals? Explore our breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and other delicious dessert recipes.

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