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Vegan Green Pesto
15 min
Spread
10 ingredients or less
Servings
(2 Tbsp per serving)
Total
15 minPrep
5 minCook
10 minContains
tree nut
Free from
soy
peanut
sesame
gluten
Ingredients
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½ cup (44 g)raw walnuts
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½ cup (68 g)raw pine nuts
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1 cup (24 g)fresh basil, packed
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1 cup (20 g)arugula, packed
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¼ cup (60 mL)olive oil
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¼ cup (60 mL)water
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2cloves garlic
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1lemon, juiced
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¼ tspground black pepper
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¼ tspflaked sea salt
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Directions
- Heat a small pan over medium-high heat, and toast the walnuts and pine nuts until fragrant for 3 - 5 minutes, stirring continuously. Transfer to a food processor.
- To the same food processor, add the basil, arugula, nutritional yeast, oil, water, garlic, lemon juice, pepper, and salt. Blend on high speed until smooth.
- Spread onto toasted bread or serve with crackers. Enjoy!
Storage
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days.
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Discussion & Rating
Best pesto recipe ever!! I have never had a nicer pesto! Beats all store bought pesto.
And my family LOVES it!!
Highly recommend!
There are so few vegan pestos available in our local supermarkets and the ones that I have found tend to be very oily and expensive. This recipe is so luxurious and creamy! And it made a decent amount for the week too! Lovely!
Absolutely delicious!! I use it as a dip, i canβt stop eating it π
Anything I could replace the arugula with?
Top taste!
Grilled a portobello, baked bread and put the pesto on the warm bread x portobelloβ¦. Njam njam!
Really good, was not able to make it exactly the same way though. Didnβt have any lemon and used a splash of citrus vinegar instead. Also, substituted white miso for nutritional yeast.
Fantastic! Used my partners home grown basil. Freshest tasting pesto weβve ever had
Made this today to enjoy with spaghetti,as I wanted something wholesome and quick...It is super easy, fullfilling and delicious! I didn't have pine nuts in my pantry,so I used sunflower seeds, but it turned out really good..Nutty!!! You guys do an amazing job!!! Thank you!!!
Hi! I've been following you for years, and it's been great watching you develop PUL. I have never frozen anything with nutritional yeast before. While regular (though dairy-free) pesto freezes well, do you think this pesto would? I enjoy it fresh and would like to double the recipe this time.
Did my little vegan food dance after making this!! So tasty!! Love it!
This pesto was delicious! I loved the combo of the pine nuts and walnuts. It was super creamy and a great way to use up the arugula in my garden.
Delicious. I may have added a little extra lemon juice because our own lemons from the tree are huge, but it made a perfect pasta sauce!
I have been making this pesto recipe for two years now! I always harvest harvest fresh basil and whatever green that I am growing at the time from my garden. This is the best pesto recipe ever and I will never make a different one again! Thank you for this amazing recipe!
This is the taste and smell of summer
Very delicious π
This pesto is the best-o! I didnβt have pine nuts so I used almonds, raw nuts and cashews. Great recipe, many thanks for creating SUCH an AMAZING CONTENT.
Very tasty! My family loved this pesto.
Made this for ThxGiving with some fresh bread on the side ! Excellent and easy to make. Good for couple days in fridge but best fresh
Super easy and delicious! Very satisfying π€€
My first vegan pesto that I love!!
Just made this but I subbed pumpkin seeds instead of pine nuts as well as vinegar for the lemon as that's what I had on hand and it is DELICIOUS! Super easy and simple, will definitely use this recipe again and again :)
This was DELICIOUS!!! Thank you so much!
My family loves this recipe, especially my 1 year old daughter ! π Thanks for all you do!
We tend to use this on pastas , mostly. I was wondering - can this pesto be frozen? If so, how long would it stay good ?
This is my go-to pesto recipe! The proportions are perfect! I use whatever greens and nuts I have on hand and use your amazingly convenient scaling feature to adjust the size of the batch as needed. It always comes out fantastic! I truly appreciate all the work and attention you put into your recipe development, I come back to PUL again and again because your recipes are unfailingly reliable and delicious, and your website is such a pleasure to use! Thanks for all you do!
Incredible !
Loved this recipe! I had an abundance of arugula growing in my garden, and I do not enjoy it raw very much because of the strong peppery taste. This recipe was a great way to use it up- delicious on toast and I cannot wait to toss it with some pasta. Pine nuts are a bit expensive where I live, so I replaced those with almonds.
I need instructions on how NOT to eat all of it in one go π
What would be a good alternative to the nutritional yeast? I'm on a maintenance diet because of my IBD and yeast is one of the products I can't have/should avoid when possible.
I was just wondering what you could use instead of walnuts and pine nuts? I have someone in my family allergic to walnuts and pine nuts are fairly expensive here in Canada.
Can someone let me know how long this pesto lasts in the fridge?
Love it! π
Do you think I could skip the nutritional yeast? Would it mess up the taste?
Also, FYI some of the ads that pop up for me feature burnt legs etc. - not appetizing when I'm looking into recipes :( Maybe you can switch it up?
Pleasant and very creamy pesto! Iβve never liked basil, so I replaced it with an equal amount of arugula. It still tasted like pesto due to the buttery nuts and lemon. Iβm amazed that the nutritional yeast almost resembles the flavour of Parmesan.
Iβve only spread this pesto on crackers so far, but Iβm excited to try it in warm meals
very easy and tasty!
Very good pesto recipe. Since I eat whole food plant based without oils I skip the olive oil but itβs still delicious!
Wow this is so good! I made this today and invented some new yoga moves to get every drop scraped out of my blender. π
I have just discovered you and your blog!! Cant wait to dive into this pesto Making it tonight! where do you get all those amazing dishes and jars??
Yummm! This pesto is incredible! I have enjoyed all of your pesto themed recipes to date and you may have just outdone yourselves with this one (although the Vegan Red Pesto is also amazing β€π€)! This recipe is bursting with flavour and today I enjoyed some in a toasted sandwich with roasted veggies and arugula. Soo good!
So so delicious! One of the best things Iβve ever made. Added it to gnocchi with some sauted mushrooms, it was a hit!
Delicious!!! This is my new go-to recipe for pesto! I did not have pine nuts, so I just doubled the walnuts. We had this tossed with pasta, as a spread for veggie wraps, and on toasted flatbread. Definitely keeping this recipe in regular rotation!
This was so yummy. My husband and our toddler loved it so much too, it was gone after one dinner!
Absolutely delicious, simple, and great meal prep. I paired mine with some whole wheat sourdough.
Really creamy and tasty π
Easy and absolutely delicious
Love it π
Hands down the BEST pesto everr!!
Your videos and recipes are an absolute source of calm.
I just had this pesto with some warm fluffy bread and it was heavenly!! Thank you π will definitely make again
I love pestos and I really like this one! I prefer using roasted garlic, also in hummus and other dips. That way you have the delicious garlicky taste but it isn't as sharp and you don't "smell" like it π You can roast a few garlic cloves and prepare them for further recipes. Simply preheat the oven to 180 Celcius and put them in there for about 10 minutes. All the Best from Austria π
Would nutritional yeast flakes be suitable as well? I can't seem to find it in a powder form
Coincidentally today I made up my mind to make a vegan version of a green pesto for the first time (That's my favorite pesto). Went into the store, bought me some pine nuts. Forgot about the pesto when I came home. Switch my laptop on and there was a notification of you with .... the vegan green pesto. So excited to try this. Thank you
Thank youuuuu! I was looking for a quick and delicious dinner, too hot to cook here in Italy! Gonna make it right now π always the best