Friday, 5 September 2008

spinach sort-of pesto = spesto? spinesto? spinachesto?


spinach sort-of pesto = spesto? spinesto? spinachesto?

pulverise spinach, especially spinach that's looking a bit sorry for itself, with toasted seeds, lemon, oil and garlic for an irridescent sauce - here i bunged it on some egg noodles but it's also good with pasta, or simply as a dresssing for veg.

Ingredients
  • 1/2 bag spinach - about 100g, plus any other nearly-dodgy salad knocking around - rocket works well
  • juice of half a lemon
  • handful sunflower seeds (or pine nuts or any other tasty nuts you have that need using up)
  • glug of olive oil
  • clove garlic
  • spinkling dried chilli
  • salt, pepper
Method
  1. toast the seeds (or nuts) lightly in a frying pan. if you burn them, you'll have to chuck them out because they taste really nasty.
  2. once they're toasted, bung in a food processor or liquidiser. put the olive oil in the still-warm frying pan and lightly fry the garlic - again, if it overcooks it'll be bitter so keep an eye on it. cooking the garlic takes the edge off...
  3. place everything else in the processor and squish on high until it's a sauce. serve ...


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