The Best Arugula Pesto

If you have roughly 45 minutes to spend in the kitchen, The Best Arugula Pesto might be an outstanding gluten free, primal, and ketogenic recipe to try. This condiment has 139 calories, 6g of protein, and 12g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. For 91 cents per serving, this recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from Foodista requires parmesan cheese, extra virgin olive oil, flat leaf parsley, and walnuts. 3 people were glad they tried this recipe. With a spoonacular score of 47%, this dish is pretty good. Similar recipes include Arugula Pesto: Pesto Di Rucola, Arugula Pesto, and Arugula Pesto.

Servings: 6

Preparation duration: -1 minutes

Cooking duration: -1 minutes

 

Ingredients:

2 cups of arugula, packed

1/2 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1/4 cup fresh flat leaf Italian parsley, packed

3 garlic cloves

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup roughly chopped walnuts

Equipment:

food processor

ice cube tray

blender

bowl

Cooking instruction summary:

  1. The great thing about a pesto is that it is so simple to make! I cant believe I dont make it more often! You take all the arugula, walnuts, garlic and parsley and put it in your blender or food processor.
  2. Give it a pulse a few times to chop everything down a little bit.
  3. Now you are going to pour in the oil while you hit the pulse button to make sure the pesto is mixing while the oil is added.
  4. Take off the lid and you are almost done! Scoop the pesto out and into a dish or a bowl or a jar.
  5. Cooking Tip** At this point if you wanted to can this you could. Or you can scoop it into an ice cube tray and freeze it! after about 6 hours when it is frozen just pop them out and put the pesto cubes in a zip lock bag or air tight container and freeze them! They will keep for a month! Then anytime you want to add it to a recipe you can pop it out and toss it in and kick anything you are making up a notch! Once it is thawed out you can stir in the Parmesan cheese.
  6. Now you want to add the grated Parmesan.
  7. At this point you need to test it and see how much salt you need to add. You can add a dash in when you are blending it but the Parmesan cheese is salty so I like to wait until after and if it needs a little bit then I add it in at the end. This way I can make sure it is not too salty or too bland. Once you have salted it and stirred it up you are done!

 

Step by step:


1. The great thing about a pesto is that it is so simple to make! I cant believe I dont make it more often! You take all the arugula, walnuts, garlic and parsley and put it in your blender or food processor.Give it a pulse a few times to chop everything down a little bit.Now you are going to pour in the oil while you hit the pulse button to make sure the pesto is mixing while the oil is added.Take off the lid and you are almost done! Scoop the pesto out and into a dish or a bowl or a jar.Cooking Tip** At this point if you wanted to can this you could. Or you can scoop it into an ice cube tray and freeze it! after about 6 hours when it is frozen just pop them out and put the pesto cubes in a zip lock bag or air tight container and freeze them! They will keep for a month! Then anytime you want to add it to a recipe you can pop it out and toss it in and kick anything you are making up a notch! Once it is thawed out you can stir in the Parmesan cheese.Now you want to add the grated Parmesan.At this point you need to test it and see how much salt you need to add. You can add a dash in when you are blending it but the Parmesan cheese is salty so I like to wait until after and if it needs a little bit then I add it in at the end. This way I can make sure it is not too salty or too bland. Once you have salted it and stirred it up you are done!


Nutrition Information:

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138 Calories
6g Protein
11g Total Fat
3g Carbs
6% Health Score
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Calories
138k
7%

Fat
11g
18%

  Saturated Fat
3g
21%

Carbohydrates
3g
1%

  Sugar
0.31g
0%

Cholesterol
14mg
5%

Sodium
682mg
30%

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Protein
6g
12%

Vitamin K
50µg
48%

Calcium
169mg
17%

Phosphorus
129mg
13%

Manganese
0.23mg
12%

Vitamin A
514IU
10%

Selenium
6µg
9%

Zinc
0.95mg
6%

Vitamin C
4mg
6%

Copper
0.1mg
5%

Magnesium
18mg
5%

Vitamin E
0.69mg
5%

Vitamin B2
0.07mg
4%

Folate
16µg
4%

Vitamin B12
0.23µg
4%

Vitamin B6
0.07mg
3%

Iron
0.52mg
3%

Potassium
96mg
3%

Fiber
0.55g
2%

Vitamin B1
0.03mg
2%

Vitamin B5
0.13mg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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