Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, spinach pesto. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Add the walnuts, lemon juice and zest; cover and process until blended. While processing, gradually add oil in a steady stream. Serve desired amount of pesto with pasta. Transfer remaining pesto to ice cube trays.
Spinach pesto is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Spinach pesto is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have spinach pesto using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Spinach pesto:
- Take Spinach leaves, cut up finely with scissors
- Make ready Cream cheese (1/3 less fat)
- Make ready Finely chopped pecan
- Make ready Parmesan cheese
- Make ready drops Lemon juice, few
- Make ready to taste Dill weed
- Make ready to taste Parsley
- Make ready to taste Sea salt
Season with the nutmeg and salt and pepper. Stir through the hot, drained pasta and serve topped with the olives and the remaining crumbled cheese and pine nuts. To add even more flavour to the pesto, toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan. Drizzle the remaining olive oil into the mixture while processing until smooth.
Steps to make Spinach pesto:
- Use equal parts of cream cheese, pecan, parmesan, and cut spinach. Assemble in a mixing bowl.
- Use a few drops of lemon juice to make cream cheese more easily blend with other ingredients. Be careful, too much lemon can make mixture bitter.
- Add parsley, dill weed, and sea salt to please your pallet. Mix thoroughly.
- Chill for service.
- Serving suggestion: In photo above, the spread is topping for a cracker with a base of spinach leaf, thin sliced fugi apple, thin slice hard boiled egg, then topped with the spread. The apple adds a balancing sweetness that creates a perfect bite for my pallet. Bon appetit y'all.
To add even more flavour to the pesto, toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan. Drizzle the remaining olive oil into the mixture while processing until smooth. Taste and adjust seasonings and transfer to a glass container and top with a thin coat of olive oil to prevent the top of the pesto from discoloring. Keeps for weeks in the refrigerator. Spinach pesto can be frozen for several months, as well.
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