Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, thai green pesto. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Thai green pesto is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Thai green pesto is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
At the glimpse it looks like an ordinary green pesto linguine… pfff big deal… but the first bite will send you worlds away to a land called I-now-make-Thai-food-sukaaah! Every ingredient is a major player on its own, the lemongrass, lime leaf, lime zest, mint, garlic! Thai basil has a bit more licorice flavor than regular sweet basil.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have thai green pesto using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Thai green pesto:
- Make ready 1/4 cup vegetable oil or olive oil
- Get 2 garlic clove, crushed under a knife and peeled
- Make ready 1/2 cup coarsely chopped roasted unsalted cashews (or you can use pine nuts)
- Get 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Prepare 1 lemon grass finely sliced (peel outside skin off and use just inside from the root up to half way of the lemon grass)
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Thai fish sauce
- Make ready 2 packed Thai basil leaves or Italian basil leaves if you cant find Thai
- Get 1-2 anchovies
- Make ready 4-5 mint leaves
- Get 1 tsp thai chilli flakes
- Get 1 pinch salt and pepper
- Get 1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
Thai green pesto This is my own twist on pesto. I absolutely love pesto with pasta, rice or even for dipping. Leave the seeds in for heat or remove them for a milder pesto. The Nuts - I use peanuts in this recipe for the Thai twist but cashews or walnuts would work in this Thai basil pesto as well.
Steps to make Thai green pesto:
- Put all dry ingredients into the pestle mortar or food processor. Pound them all together in the pestle and mortar or blitzed them in the food processor until all finely chopped and form into paste
- Pour vegetable or olive oil in the pestle and mortar and mix it together. For food processor pour oil through the feed tube to make a paste. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (The pesto can be refrigerated in a covered container, with a very thin layer of vegetable oil poured on top to seal the surface, for up to 2 weeks, or frozen for up to 3 months. Bring to room temperature and stir well before using.)
- Can be cook with stir fried rice on my recipe or simply add on to pasta
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