Arugula Walnut Pesto

Prep Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Servings: servings

Cuisine: Italian, South American

Author: Heather Nicholds

Not everyone likes arugula's distinctive flavor in salads, but it tastes amazing in this pesto with toasted walnuts and lime. Blending super-nutritious greens into a really tasty sauce makes it so easy to eat a whole salad-worth of them. Plus, arugula and walnuts make a less expensive pesto than traditional basil and pine nuts.

Ingredients

1 cup arugula, or more!
2 green onion
2 cloves fresh garlic
1/2 cup walnuts, toasted
1/2 lime, zested and juiced
1/2 tsp sea salt, more or less, to taste
1 Tbsp nutritional yeast, optional

Instructions

Put the ingredients in a food processor, and puree until smooth. If you need to, you can add an extra little drizzle of water or lime juice to get it creamy.

Notes

If you want a softer garlic flavor, bake the garlic cloves for 10 minutes or so in their skin.

There are so many ways to enjoy this pesto: as a sandwich spread, as the sauce for a pizza or tossed with pasta.

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