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Pesto Sauce with Spinach in a Blender
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How to Make Pesto Sauce with Spinach in a Blender

To get that bright green pesto look, I usually use spinach in my sauce. I'll share with you a recipe for how to make pesto sauce using spinach and a few other ingredients while working with the blender. I will also share with you some other ingredients you could use to modify the recipe, swapping out some ingredients for others or adding ones to give it more variety.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of basil leaves, packed
  • 1 cup of spinach, packed
  • ½ cup of extra virgin olive oil
  • Juice from 1 lemon
  • of a teaspoon of salt
  • ¼ cup of pine nuts
  • ½ cup of parmesan cheese, grated

Instructions

  • Put the pine nuts, lemon juice, salt, basil, spinach, parmesan cheese into the blender.
  • Set the blender to pulse in order to combine the ingredients. Slowly pour in the olive oil while the blender is pulsing.
  • After you have poured in all of the ingredients, continue to blend for another 30 seconds to combine everything smoothly.