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Pick off and discard the larger stems, keeping the feathery leaves. Carrots tops have a grassy, parsley-like flavour that makes them ideal for blitzing into a quick and simple pesto. It's sensational served with roasted carrots, spread on toast, tossed through pasta or stirred with a few glugs of olive oil to make a delicious salad dressing.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carrot top pesto using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot top pesto:
- Make ready 1 bunch carrot tops
- Prepare 50 g pine nuts
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 handful mint leaves
- Prepare Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- Make ready 100 ml olive oil
- Get 1 handful Parmesan cheese
- Take Pinch salt
Ready in just a few minutes and perfect on pasta, sandwiches, crackers and more. Course condiments, sauces, spreads Chop the carrot leaves finely and put them in a pestle and mortar with the garlic and a fat pinch of salt. Pound to a paste, then add the cashew nuts and pound again. Add the cheese and pound one.
Instructions to make Carrot top pesto:
- Remove the tops from the carrots and put them in a blender
- Toast the pine nuts over a dry pan until golden. Then add to the blender.
- Add the mint leaves, garlic, lemon zest and juice and a pinch of salt. Blitz until everything is breaking down.
- While the blender is still on, gradually add the olive oil to the mixture (through the well in the top) until the mixture is smooth.
- The add the Parmesan and give everything one last blitz until the cheese is combined. Taste and enjoy!
How to Make Carrot Top Pesto In a dry pan over low-medium heat (no oil), lightly toast the pine nuts or any other nuts you're using. Remove from heat, allow to cool. Cut off the carrot tops and wash the leaves. Add with the rest of the ingredients (roughly chop the Parmesan or other cheese), to a food processor, mini chopper or blender. Here are the general steps for making carrot top pesto: Thoroughly clean the carrot leaves (important step).
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