Paul's Favorite Spinach-Walnut Pesto
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups spinach leaves, packed and stemmed
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup romano cheese or 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
- 1 cup walnut pieces
- 2 medium garlic cloves
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
directions
- Place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse several times until coarsely chopped. Scrape sides of bowl from time to time. Process continuously until the sauce is smooth.
- If the pesto is too thick, add a little hot water and pulse again.
- At this point, you can either freeze the pesto for future use or toss immediately with prepared, hot spaghetti noodles.
- Serve with crusty bread and a good white wine.
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Reviews
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Excellent recipe overall! I didn’t put as much olive oil at first. But I trickled it in as needed. In the end I think I used about a cup. I used an extra clove of garlic and added 4 green chilies for a kick. My family loved the blend of everything. I decided to keep the texture a little course. Will be using it this week with some farfalla. As well as some pizza later this week. Thumbs up, will surely be using it again in the near future! YUMMMMS.
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