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Kale Walnut Pesto

· by Katie Koteen · This post may contain affiliate links · 8 Comments · Modified:

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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

5 from 1 review
  • Author: Well Vegan
  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Cook Time: 5 mins
  • Total Time: 20 minutes
  • Yield: 1 cup 1x
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Ingredients

Scale
  • ½ bunch kale, discard stems and chop
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • ÂĽ cup nutritional yeast
  • Juice from ½ lemon to start, up to 1 lemon to taste
  • ÂĽ cup olive oil
  • salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

 

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  1. Katie Koteen

    Maybe 3-4 ounces without stems. Does that help?

  2. beentheredonethat

    How big is half a bunch of kale

  3. Katie Koteen

    Glad to hear it was a success!

  4. 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!



  5. Katie Koteen

    My best guess is 3-4 days!

  6. Theresa Cyrus

    Hello Katie,

    I absolutely love the idea of this recipe, do you know the shelf life? 🙂 Thank you!

  7. Katie Koteen

    Yeah, absolutely! Thanks for asking 🙂

  8. 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