Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, wild garlic pesto. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Transform your foraging finds into a tangy sauce by combining wild garlic leaves with parmesan, garlic, lemon and pine nuts. Wild garlic (Allium ursinum, Bear's garlic, or Bärlauch in German) is a wonderful chive cousin and is a very popular European species of garlic. Wild garlic pesto can be used as alternative to basil pesto as addition to pasta, tomato sauces and much more. Pick up the leaves before it had bloomed as apparently the leaves get really bitter after that point.
Wild garlic pesto is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Wild garlic pesto is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook wild garlic pesto using 5 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Wild garlic pesto:
- Prepare Generous handful of wild garlic
- Get Glug of olive oil
- Prepare 80 g parmesan
- Get 100 g nuts (pine nuts is a favourite but other nuts ok as well)
- Take Juice of 1 lemon
You can find wild garlic during March until May in the forest in Switzerland. These three months can vary according to the weather, but start to look for it when spring is just coming, and it's still cold outside. If you want to keep it longer, pour a small layer of olive oil on top of the pesto. This way you can keep it in the fridge for up to a week.
Instructions to make Wild garlic pesto:
- Put all ingredients into a food processor and mix until fine. Pour enough oil in to give a smooth texture
If you want to keep it longer, pour a small layer of olive oil on top of the pesto. This way you can keep it in the fridge for up to a week. We are massive pesto fans in this house. Pesto pasta is my go-to dish when I need to rustle up a lunch or dinner in minutes. More often than not it's the jarred variety so the thought of having my own homemade stash of this homemade wild garlic pesto was very appealing!
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