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Better Than Your Pesto
What you need:
2 cups of FRESH basil leaves, with stems cut off
2 to 2 1/2 big cloves of garlic, sliced down the middle
1/4 cup of pine nuts
1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil
1/3 cup of FRESHLY grated non-dairy cheese/veggie cheese/soy cheese
What you do:
Add all the ingredients at once into a blender or food processor. Mix until almost liquified. Approximately 1-3 minutes.
Preparation Time:
5 mins
Cooking Time:
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
Not sure what I did wrong here... But it tasted pretty off--not what I'm used to pesto tasting like.
I think my mistake was that I used a packed 2 cups of basil leaves, and then I added a bit too much tofu. Anyway, I made it super tasty by adding more basil, more EVOL and more nutritional yeast. Oh, and a bit of salt.
i just mixed up a few jars of the most delicious pesto off of this recipe!!! I actually used the tofu/nutr. yeast suggestion, adding much more than I had initially planned. But it's SOOOOO good!!! Definitely my new pesto recipe.
I substituted the "cheese" with tofu and nutritional yeast. Ohh, and I used sunflower seeds instead of pine nuts. Beautiful color!
Waaaay too much cheese for my taste. It was good on my cucumber sandwich but not as a dip.