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Stop making boring basil pestos 🌿
Instead, step up your sauce game with leftover leafy greens
Kristina Todini, RDN
November 27, 2023
If you’re only making pesto with basil, your pestos are probably boring.
Fun (and controversial) fact: Pesto DOES NOT have to contain basil.
Another fact: Pesto does not even have to contain an herb.
Yes, oregano, mint, dill, and thyme pestos exist (and are delicious), but you can actually put any type of leafy green into homemade pesto sauce.
And that’s where the fun starts – getting creative with your pesto sauces and turning leftover leaves into phenomenal pestos.
👉 Today’s plant powered kitchen tip is this: think outside-the-box with scraps like radish greens, turnip tops, and carrot leaves by putting them in pesto sauces to eat on pastas, pizzas, or stirred into soups. Reduce waste and make flavor- and nutrient-packs sauces!
More unconventional pestos👇
DID YOU KNOW? 🧐
The English word pestle (the rounded tool used to crush substances in a mortar) is related to pesto. Both come from the Latin word pistare, which means to pound. (source)
First we eat, then we do everything else.
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