A Taste of Spring & Summer to come!
This is an absolutely delicious tasting pesto that looks as good as it tastes. It stimulates your senses and has pungent, sweet and salty tastes. It can be used in so many cooking dishes to add pungent garlicky flavours or simply smeared on toasted bread.
It takes minutes to prepare, can be stored in your fridge for months and can be added to many different dishes as garlic pungent flavour taste.
Ingredients
Wild garlic can be found from January to April in whole woodland. It is easy to recognise leaves by smell and taste. Large spear shaped leaves growing profusely in large green swathes of ground. Will have small white petalled flowers late on which are also edible and excellent used as a salad garnish.
- Pine nuts 30 g
- Olive oil extra virgin 150g
- Parmesan cheese 80 g
- ½ tsp of salt
Preparation
Preparation 5 minutes
- Rinse and wash the wild garlic leaves and let dry on a napkin
- Add all ingredients into a food processor and mix to desired consistency.
- Seal in a airtight jar after adding a layer of olive oil on top. This will allow you to keep it in the fridge for months and use as needed.
- Great with soups, roasts, added to meats or fish as an herb coating.
- Great for vata and kapha imbalance especially. Care with pitta as quite pungent.
