Vegan Pesto Sauce

Supplies!!

Bout to blend!

Blending!!

Heating to Serve

Mixing!

Time to Eat!

she was loving it!

yummy

Gotcha, eating your dinner, Yay!!

on the left she's saying "cheeze" too cute:)

Happy kids = Happy momma!!  my angels:)

On a personal note, I just wanted  to say a prayer for my family, who has lost Gordon Jones today, he was a great man and I feel blessed to have known him!!  We will miss you!! 

I realized after saying that I was going to make this tonight, that I had no fresh basil on hand, which to make basil pesto would be an issue for most.  But I like to think I am a bit inventive on substitutions around this joint, so I decided to use some frozen basil cubes to get the flavor and in place of the actual leaf to do  some baby kale, to act as my green veggie!  Adding this to my dish not only improved the flavor, but if you haven't heard, Kale is a superfood and does wonders for your body.  This would be a great sauce to do in raw form (as in no heating, except the hot noodles warming the sauce), but with the garlic it can be a bit overpowering especially for my kids.  So I actually warm and cook the sauce, but you could do either way with the same yummy results!  You need a good food processor or a sweet blender, which we invested in a couple of years ago, one of the best purchases ever!!  Then I add in all the ingredients and blend until smooth.  Now if you wanted to have this not as creamy, you could lower the avocado amount down to half an avocado and add more oil, but not in this house.  My one year old saw the cut up avocado and couldn't get enough of it just plain and she wasn't feeling so great today, so I knew she was gonna love this sauce!!  Anyways, I serve with my penne brown rice noodles, but you could do on anything, it would also be great on pizza or garlic bread; I guess I should say anything Italian would be a yum!!!  Enjoy and have fun with it:)

Raw Vegan Pesto Sauce
1 1/2 cups fresh Basil (this is where I did the Baby Kale and then about 8 tsp of basil)
2 TBSP. Pine Nuts
1 whole avocado
2 cloves of Garlic
3 TBSP. Nutritional Yeast
1 TBSP. Lemon Juice
Bragg's to taste
1 TBSP. Olive oil (more if needed)

 

Blend together and serve over hot pasta or heat and serve!!