Pesto sauce with cashew nuts

Name: Pesto sauce with cashew nuts
Total time: 600 s
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup cashew nuts; 1 big bunch fresh basil; 100 gr. parmesan cheese; 1 glass olive oil (extra virgin if possible); to taste Salt and pepper

Becky @beckyr

Alicante, Spain

Home-made pesto is SO MUCH NICER than the commercial ready-made ones, and it is SO EASY to make!!!! I first made it in Florence during a family holiday years ago, and haven't stopped since. You can make a big batch and store for the week to use in all sorts of recipes. Pesto isn't only great with pasta - it also works really well in stuffed jacket potatoes, as a sauce for french beans, a spoonful in tomato soup gives the soup a fabulous tasty turn, and a teaspoon in home-made guacamole is a worthy substitute for fresh coriander... My sons even like eating my pesto spread generously on warm toast. Tradutional pesto sauce uses pine nuts but actually other nuts work really well too, especially cashews becauae their sweetness combines beautifully with the peppery and intense flavour of fresh basil. Keeps well in the fridge for a week.

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Ingredients

10 mins

10 servings

1 cupcashew nuts
1 big bunchfresh basil
100 gr.parmesan cheese
1 glassolive oil (extra virgin if possible)
to tasteSalt and pepper

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Steps

10 mins

1

Put the nuts and cheese in the food processor. Break the cheese into chunks (I like to take the cheese out of the fridge about an hour before making the pesto so as to soften its fridge hardness,, but that's not essential)
2

Blitz
3

Add the olive oil
4

And the washed basil
5

Blitz again. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add more oil if you want too. Use what you need, and save the rest in an airtight container in the fridge. Enjoy!!

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Becky @beckyr

on December 17, 2015 14:17

Alicante, Spain

Born in the UK, I came to Spain after graduating many moons and meals ago, and I'm still here. For me cooking is a great way to unwind at the end of the day. My recipes tend to be quite quick and simple and (mostly!!) healthy too. Also quite seasonal - I prefer buying fresh local produce as much as possible. When I have time, I love spending a few hours cooking, filling my kitchen with delicious smells and great music and then hosting family and friends for long happy meals, laughs, conversation and chilled white wine. I'm a great believer in the power and value of home cooking for our own health, happiness and wellbeing and those of our loved ones and since I joined the Cookpad team 11 years ago I am committed to helping to make everyday cooking more fun for people all over the World. You can see more recipes (in Spanish) on my Cookpad Spain profile here: https://cookpad.wasmer.app/eng/users/1089227