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.
- 1 cup of basil leaves, packed
- 1 cup of spinach, packed
- ½ cup of extra virgin olive oil
- Juice from 1 lemon
- ⅛ of a teaspoon of salt
- ¼ cup of pine nuts
- ½ cup of parmesan cheese, grated
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.