Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, nasturtium pesto. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Nasturtium Pesto is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Nasturtium Pesto is something that I have loved my entire life.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook nasturtium pesto using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Nasturtium Pesto:

1. Prepare 2 cups packed nasturtium leaves
2. Prepare 1 handful nasturtium flowers
3. Make ready 3 garlic cloves, crushed and diced
4. Prepare 1/2 cup pine nuts or walnut pieces, toasted
5. Take 1/2 cup finely grated hard cheese like parmesan
6. Take 2/3 cup good olive oil

My pesto is simple to make, full of peppery goodness and vegan too! If you want the full nasturtium effect use large leaves as plates topped with a flowery late summer salad, drizzled with leaf pesto! Nasturtium leaves are completely edible, and have a spicy, peppery bite similar to arugula. When used in place of basil, nasturtium will add a radish-type 'bite' and a very slight earthy flavor to the pesto.

Steps to make Nasturtium Pesto:

1. Assemble everything… mise en place!
2. Toast nuts in dry skillet on high heat
3. Add oil, nuts, and garlic to a bowl and puree with immersion blender
4. Add nasturtium leaves and puree them in with oil, nuts, and garlic. (See next note)
5. If your nasturtium leaves are a bit old and tough and too spicy you can tone them down by dipping them in boiling-temperature water for 10 seconds then squeezing out the water before puree. I did this for my pasta, but not for baking on top of salmon.
6. Lightly puree in the flowers
7. Stir in the grated cheese and you are done! You can freeze it if need be.
8. Enjoy!

Nasturtium leaves are completely edible, and have a spicy, peppery bite similar to arugula. When used in place of basil, nasturtium will add a radish-type 'bite' and a very slight earthy flavor to the pesto. It's hard to pick out when added to a pasta or soup, but you could use a mix of basil and nasturtium leaves if you want more of a traditional pesto flavor. Salt and pepper to taste ; Grated cheese of your choice; Method. If you are only making a small batch then use a pestle.

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