Vegan Cashew Pesto
Posted On March 31, 2023
Prep time 15 minutes
Total time 15 minutes
This easy made pesto is the fantasy dressing for nearly all courses! What could be better knowing it consists of a variety of nuts and it also being vegan!! In other words, this taste enriched sauce is the key ingredient to enhance flavours in every single meal.
Throughout the middle ages in Italy authentic pesto was made with variations of nutritious nuts, even including walnuts, pistachio and pine nuts in some older recipes. Basil, garlic and olive oil were always accompanied with, giving a faded outline that nuts are the key tasty ingredient in a delicious appetising pesto!!
Effortlessly substituting different alterations of nuts into your pesto recipe, for example pine nuts with sunflower seeds, you get succulent and aromatic pesto each time.
Ingredients for the Vegan Cashew Pesto:
Raw Cashews: This recipe uses a handful of cashews but could also be substituted with other types of nuts.
Walnuts: Why on earth not?! Unless your allergic, which in that case please stay away.
Fresh Basil: Fresh ingredients are more appetising, flavour-wise, and some fresh basil not only gives nutrition, but also a beautiful colour to our pesto.
Hot Water: the key to a creamier pesto (besides the olive oil), people also do use yoghurt at times.
Nutritional yeast flakes: Texture is as important as flavour, something that doesn’t sit right with our sensation will automatically be not as tempting to eat.
Roasted Garlic: Taste buds will explode with this enticing and tasty ingredient, a whole bunch will give the most succulent variations of flavour that will really bring this sauce together!
Olive Oil: It is an Italian dressing after all!
Lemon Juice: A delicious tang of sour will expand the flavourings sensed.
Optional:
Pinch of Sea Salt
Pinch of Pepper
Sprinkle of Garlic Powder
Handful of Sunflower Seeds
Now that we’ve put aside the ingredients needed let’s get to work.
Instructions:
Specific Nutritional: Preparation Information:
Makes: roughly 500g Raw Cashews: 150g (boil for around 15 minutes)
Calories: 241 kcal (162kcal from fat) Hot water: 10 tbsp
Carbs: 13g Fresh Basil: 120g
Fiber: 4g Yeast Flakes: 50g
Sugar: 2g Roasted Garlic: 6 cloves
Protein: 10g Olive Oil: 2tbsp
Fat: 18g Lime Juice: 2tbsp