Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, thai green pesto. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
At the glimpse it looks like an ordinary green pesto linguine… pfff big deal… but the first bite will send you worlds away to a land called I-now-make-Thai-food-sukaaah! Every ingredient is a major player on its own, the lemongrass, lime leaf, lime zest, mint, garlic! Thai basil has a bit more licorice flavor than regular sweet basil.
Thai green pesto is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Thai green pesto is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have thai green pesto using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Thai green pesto:
- Make ready 1/4 cup vegetable oil or olive oil
- Make ready 2 garlic clove, crushed under a knife and peeled
- Take 1/2 cup coarsely chopped roasted unsalted cashews (or you can use pine nuts)
- Get 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Make ready 1 lemon grass finely sliced (peel outside skin off and use just inside from the root up to half way of the lemon grass)
- Get 1 teaspoon Thai fish sauce
- Take 2 packed Thai basil leaves or Italian basil leaves if you cant find Thai
- Make ready 1-2 anchovies
- Take 4-5 mint leaves
- Prepare 1 tsp thai chilli flakes
- Take 1 pinch salt and pepper
- Make ready 1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
Thai green pesto This is my own twist on pesto. I absolutely love pesto with pasta, rice or even for dipping. I call it Pesto because it's green. It is made with Baby Spinach, Thai Basil, Coriander, Olive Oil, Avocado, Salt, Sugar and Lime Juice.
Instructions to make Thai green pesto:
- Put all dry ingredients into the pestle mortar or food processor. Pound them all together in the pestle and mortar or blitzed them in the food processor until all finely chopped and form into paste
- Pour vegetable or olive oil in the pestle and mortar and mix it together. For food processor pour oil through the feed tube to make a paste. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (The pesto can be refrigerated in a covered container, with a very thin layer of vegetable oil poured on top to seal the surface, for up to 2 weeks, or frozen for up to 3 months. Bring to room temperature and stir well before using.)
- Can be cook with stir fried rice on my recipe or simply add on to pasta
Once blended, this tasty pasty (ha) is stirred into cooked Rice, which then turns GREEN. Amazing ways to use green pesto. Get the most out of this handy little jar with these fresh ideas for green pesto. Packed with punchy basil, this zingy herb sauce is perfect for adding a hit of flavour to your everyday dishes without spending a fortune, whether that's a hearty breakfast or your favourite family dinners. I added part of the pesto to spaghetti noodles with shredded carrot and green onion - tasty, but dry (added some sesame oil at the table).
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