Easy Spinach Pesto that goes great over fish, chicken, steak or veggies!

Easy Spinach Pesto

spinach (can also use basil, arugula

garlic

pine nuts

parmesan cheese

salt

pepper

olive oil

lemon

In the bowl of a food processor or blender add the spinach, garlic, pine nuts, cheese, salt and pepper and pulse until well combined, but not totally smooth. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil while pulsing. Add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.

I used a full lemon and almonds with spinach and I had no leftovers.  My hubby actually put extra pesto on his food.  This is a very nice easy recipe for pesto that I’m going to have fun playing with..trying different nuts, different greens, etc.  thank you!!

Thank you for a great recipe &amp; beautiful pictures without a full-on manifesto of text...oh, the scrolling! I will be back for more recipes.

Easy and delicious. My steak is better thanks to it. I love your recipe.

I cannot buy pine nuts. So I replaced it with walnuts. It was also great.

This just looks so perfect, Katerina. I love spinach pesto even more than basil pesto (I know, I know… blasphemy).
I love the addition of ricotta, too!

This looks so delicious and beautiful! Can’t wait to make it! 💚
Thanks for sharing

This pesto was absolutely delicious! So easy to make and love all the fresh flavors in this.

Oh man, this looks gorgeous and absolutely delicious!

turned out great!! I substituted greek yogurt + water for the oil to be a bit healthier. This is my new favorite pasta sauce!

I love this. Have also added Jalapeno's to this for a little extra KICK! Really great stuff! Who knew pesto would be so easy?!?!

really easy and yummy - substituted frozen spinach and basil and still turned out great!

Excellent recipe! I wanted to make some Pesto for my Avocado Eggs and realized I was out of Basil! Thank goodness for your recipe! Im added an extra tablespoon of parmesan for flavor rather than adding salt directly. Substituted the pine nuts with brazil nuts my wife had sitting around. Added a little more pepper than a pinch for extra flavor. And my love for garlic added an extra tablespoon. Came out great! Thank you again!

Can this be frozen? Without the cheese? Just the olive oil?  It sounds so good, when spinach is ready!

Hello and thank you so much for this delicious recipe! Three hungry kids and a very tired and hungry mama with no husband home...no pesto or basil in the house but a big bag of spinach so I looked up spinach pesto and found myself here...and I’m so glad. I had to use walnuts as we ran out of pine nuts but I’m sure it would be equally delicious! We all had seconds and there’s just enough left for my lunch tomorrow, win win! This is now my go to pesto recipe and next time I will be making x4 and freezing some! (Only sad we ate too quickly to take a photo for Instagram!)

This recipe is awesome.  I changed it slightly since my daughter is vegan.  I used Violife vegan parm and added extra.  I also decreased the olive oil to about 1/3 cup and it came out GREAT.  We have used this as a pasta sauce and as a pizza sauce:)  Today I am going to try to use it in a pesto bread recipe.  Spinach is our go to "green" for it's nutritional value so I was very happy to find this pesto recipe.  Thanks!

The best spinach pesto!! Made Italian Club Sandwich on Focaccia bread and spread it on the bottom focaccia bread, and it was excellent. Didn't have pine nuts, so I used slivered almonds....so good!!!! Thank you

I had spinach that was sitting in my fridge for quite a few days now. I was looking at leftover pasta that was asking for topping. Not sure how I ran across this recipe, but remembered it. I had cheese and garlic and fancy olive oil. Did have to go get pine nuts (expensive but worth it) and whipped up this pesto. OMG! Sooooo yummmy!!! I had no idea it was this easy and the pesto is sooooo delicious. Thank you for posting.

Just made this pesto and I have to say thank you so much for the amazing recipe!  It was so easy and tasted sooo good!  I used it to make farfalle pasta with pesto and peas!  And my 3 year old and 1 year old both devoured it!

This was terrific!  I actually liked it just as much as pesto made with all basil.  I had all the ingredients in my pantry.  Oregano is just coming up in my yard so I added a couple tablespoons of that.  It tasted so fresh and delicious on sundried tomato &amp; goat cheese ravioli with fresh grape tomatoes.

Thank you for this great recipe! I use only 2 tbsp olive oil and then another 2 tbsp water and a very small amount of salt because I am making this for my 1 year old. Trying to add more iron and greens to his diet and he enjoys this sauce with his chicken! *huge win for me, happy mommy* haha thanks again!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I've been looking for ways to incorporate more veggies into meals for a picky eater and this is perfect. Added a splash of heavy whipping cream and worked so well with penne and chicken.

Really love this recipe thank you! One of the comments suggests adding jalepenos. I didn't have any to hand so added some pitted kalamata olives instead and it was a success! Definitely a keeper.

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easy spinach pesto

Servings: 6

Cost: $5.98 /serving

Author : Laney Schwartz

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