This kale walnut pesto is a simple and versatile sauce to add a little something extra to your favorite pasta. It's also great as a vegetable dip or as a condiment for your favorite veggie burgers and dogs! If you don't have kale, any hearty green will do.
This recipe makes about 1 cup of kale walnut pesto. Plenty for a pound of pasta. Be sure to set aside some pasta water for thinning the sauce, so it coats the pasta nicely.
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Kale Walnut Pesto
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 1 cup 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- ½ bunch kale, discard stems and chop
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 2 cloves garlic
- ¼ cup nutritional yeast
- Juice from ½ lemon to start, up to 1 lemon to taste
- ¼ cup olive oil
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add a teaspoon of salt and the kale. Cook for 5 minutes and transfer the kale to a colander, using a slotted spoon.
- Combine the kale, walnuts, garlic, nutritional yeast, olive oil, and lemon juice in a food processor. Process until smooth. Add salt and pepper and more lemon to taste.
beentheredonethat
How big is half a bunch of kale
Katie Koteen
Maybe 3-4 ounces without stems. Does that help?
Madhavi Mylavarapu
I made this yesterday for my daughter’s birthday party, and served it as a dip with raw veggies. It was a great hit with both adults and children. They just raved about it....Thanks so much for such an awesome recipe. I am going to try it with pasta, and as a pizza sauce.
Will look up your other vegan recipes as well!
Katie Koteen
Glad to hear it was a success!
Theresa Cyrus
Hello Katie,
I absolutely love the idea of this recipe, do you know the shelf life? 🙂 Thank you!
Katie Koteen
My best guess is 3-4 days!
Katherine
Hi Katie,
I loved this Kale Walnut Pesto recipe.
I would love to feature it in our website, Greenthickies.com. I will not be posting the actual recipe, but will only use one image form the post and a small quote and link directly back to the original post in your site.
Will that be all right?
Thanks a lot :),
Katherine,
Greenthickies.com
Katie Koteen
Yeah, absolutely! Thanks for asking 🙂