Name: Homemade Pesto in a Blender
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 2 cups packed basil leaves, if you don't have enough basil, you can mix in spinach or parsley; 1/4 cup pine nuts; 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated; Juice of one lemon; 1/8 tsp salt; 2 garlic cloves, optional; 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

This recipe makes 1 cup of pesto. Making Homemade Pesto in a Blender is an easy way to enjoy this summery sauce. Enjoy Pesto over pasta, sandwiches, or pizza! It's so versatile.

Homemade Pesto in a Blender

basil

pine nuts

cheese,

lemon

salt

garlic cloves, optional

extra virgin olive oil

Dump the basil, pine nuts, Parmesan cheese, lemon, garlic and salt into a blender.

Pulse the blender while slowly pouring in the olive oil.

Blend for another 30 seconds or so, until everything is thoroughly combined.

Thanks for confirming blender. My food pro is packed away. Easy to follow

I just made this in my blender, it worked!  I excitedly bought all the ingredients for pesto but later dreaded pulling out my giant food processor.  I roughly chopped my basil &amp; nuts (I used walnut) before adding them to blender.  I needed my rubber spatula to work the leaves down after each of the first few pulses before it would really catch.  Thank you for letting me leave my food processor hidden away.

Made alot of pesto before and none was really that amazing. this recipe was a knock out! Love it so much!  Thank you!  Added juice of 1/2 of a lemon and some garlic and it was perfection.

Awesome! My lemon was a little too large but fortunately, I like tartness! Just ‘taste tested’ my 1st batch (as I know there will be more) on some linguine! Perfection!

Had lots of Spring mix lettuces and some leftover basil leaves. Toasted pine nuts first on stove. Finally after all in blender it finally started blending! Delicious and added some smoked sea salt and 3 cloves garlic!  Will freeze! Thank you for inspiration!!!

I tried this recipe as well as it's scrumptious and also natural. I never tried this sort of pesto. his truly raise my expertise concerning this Expecting such valuable and wonderful recipes.

After making a skewered caprese salad with basil, I used the remaining basil leaves plus the olive oil and spices from the marinated mozzarella pearls to make this pesto recipe. Very easy to make. Fresh is best!

I tried with my Vitamix blender and the result is far from the actual Italian pesto but the taste was good. The Vitamix made the sauce very "velvety" which is nice but the metal blender affected the colour (the real pesto is pale green).

This was the best and easiest recipe! Thanks soooooo much. I did have to add some water as my blender is an older gal and didn't process the pesto unless I did add some water. I still loved this and will be for sure making this again. Actually, this will be my go to for pesto!

very easy! i still had basil growing out of control in my garden so pesto it was! i had tried a different recipe before and just couldn't get it going to get it smooth. my new blender handled it like a charm! thanks

This recipe is top notch.  I made it the first time exactly as prescribed with the addition of some parsley as I had an abundance of both.  Excited to try some variations like sun-dried, tomatoes or even other types of vegetables from my garden.   Perhaps I can can this.... tyvm

Homemade Pesto in a Blender

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Total: 10 minutes

Servings: 1

Author : The Hungry Waitress

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