Peas and avocado pesto
A Creamy blend of green peas, and avocado dip. Perfect to go with your breads, snacks, veggies, top it on your oatcakes, or make it a sauce for your creamy green pastas.
Ingredients
- 1 cup peas fresh or frozen
- 1/2 avocado
- 1 small onion
- 7-8 cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup pinenuts you can replace these with cashews or blanched almonds
- few sprigs fresh coriander leaves
- 1/4 cup parmesan to make this vegan use nutritional yeast
- 4-5 whole pepper cloves
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2-3 tbsp E V olive oil
- water
- 1/2 tsp olive oil for cookingg
- Juice of half a lemon
Instructions
- Dry roast the garlic cloves (with the skin on).Keep aside.
- In a pan, heat a little olive oil. Add chopped onions and sauté for 1-2 min.
- Add peas, mix, and cover for 10-15 min till they are tender and cooked.Fresh peas might take longer to cook.Once cooked, let it cool.
- In a blender add all the ingredients- peas and onions, roasted garlic, avocado,pinenuts,fresh coriander leaves, parmesan,pepper cloves, salt, 1 tsp EVOO,Juice of lemon, and a little water.
- Blitz until it forms a smooth paste.Your peas and avocado pesto is ready.
- Drizzle the leftover EVOO on top, and serve it!
Notes
- To make this vegan- use nutritional yeast instead of parmesan.
- If you do not have pine nuts available, use soaked cashews or blanched almonds instead, but the taste will vary. I have tried all options and all taste good in their own way!
- Adding roasted garlic , really enhances the garlic flavour, hence I used roasted garlic. You can use raw garlic as is.
- If you want you can dry roast the pine nuts as well, before adding to the blender. That enhances the nutty flavour.