I do/did not have enough money/time/energy to follow Bon Appetit's post new year's two week "food lover's cleanse," but I did look through their section on nutritional foods that are good to focus on. One is kale, and kale is a leafy vegetable that I had not yet pesto-ed. There is no better way to eat a healthy food than to load it up with nuts, cheese, and oil. After pesto-ing a lot of other veggies, I used pretty much the same formula.
Ingredients
1 pound kale, stems removed and roughly chopped
1/2 cup walnuts
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup parmesan cheese, plus more to top
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook kale, uncovered, for about 10 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and use the water to cook the pasta in (if you're going to cook pasta). If not, then you can just drain the kale/water. Run kale under cold water and then squeeze out as much moisture as possible.
2. In a food processor, pulse together all ingredients, pouring in the olive oil as it chops. Add salt and pepper to taste.
That pesto looks delicious, and I find kale to be much easier to grow than Basil... I just can never grow enough to meet my Pesto requirements! I've seen kale pesto mentioned in quite a few places lately, it definately seems to be something of a hot recipe. Your photos show why, it looks delicious and is making me hungry just looking at it!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's very tasty, I love pesto :-) Your desserts look delicious too, I'll have to check out your recipes the next time I make one!
ReplyDeleteYay for kale! I bet this pesto would be good mixed up with a can of white beans for a super easy dinner.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds good! There's also this kale and pan fried corona beans recipe from 101 Cookbooks that I've been meaning to try: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/panfried-corona-beans-kale-recipe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+101Cookbooks+%28101+Cookbooks%29
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