What the heck do vegans eat? Pesto!
Here’s another look into what I make on a pretty typical evening.
We got a wonderful bunch of kale, some garlic, and some tomatoes in our latest CSA share, so I immediately thought pasta would be wonderful. I just scored an old (but still in great condition) Cuisinart food processor at a yard sale, so I wanted to make up a pesto to go on said pasta. But my basil plant was looking a bit sad, so that was out. Have no fear – kale to the rescue!
This is a kale pesto made with chopped kale (with the most woody stem bits removed), several cloves of garlic, pine nuts, nutritional yeast, olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. To that I simply added some chopped tomato and served it over corn pasta. If you don’t try to avoid gluten, you could easily serve this over any vegan pasta you like.
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Looks like they will accept almost anything, maybe even my photos that are always shot down by TasteSpotting but accepted by everyone else.
Ciao!
L
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This sounds fantastic. I love Kale, and have made toasted kale in the oven which I learned about at a vegan restaurant I visited last year.
So did it taste quite different and was the texture much different than it is when using basil?
celtaur: It did taste a lot different from basil pesto. A lot more earthy/green and less peppery than basil. The texture wasn’t a lot different but the food processor I have is quite good, so it was able to really chop up the kale.
You should try it for sure, it’s really nice! Just make sure you have good garlic, as that is really important for the flavour. :)