Thai green pesto

Steps Cook Recipes Thai green pesto using 12 ingredients and 3 steps

Thai green pesto - Thai basil has a bit more licorice flavor than regular sweet basil. We love this Thai Basil Pesto on pasta and sandwiches but the main way I like to use it is in Thai recipes like Wonton Soup or wok food (chicken and broccoli or green beans). 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! Pesto can be made with any herb or green, but the traditional Italian way is with basil, and lots of it. Of course it's excellent on pasta, but it's also great smeared on pizza, or rubbed on.

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.

You can cook Thai green pesto using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients make Thai green pesto

1. Prepare 1/4 cup vegetable oil or olive oil.
2. You need 2 garlic clove, crushed under a knife and peeled.
3. You need 1/2 cup coarsely chopped roasted unsalted cashews (or you can use pine nuts).
4. It's 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice.
5. 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).
6. You need 1 teaspoon Thai fish sauce.
7. Prepare 2 packed Thai basil leaves or Italian basil leaves if you cant find Thai.
8. You need 1-2 anchovies.
9. You need 4-5 mint leaves.
10. It's 1 tsp thai chilli flakes.
11. You need 1 pinch salt and pepper.
12. Prepare 1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese.

Thai green pesto instructions

1. 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.
2. 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.).
3. Can be cook with stir fried rice on my recipe or simply add on to pasta.

Thai green pesto - Amazing ways to use green pesto. Get the most out of this handy little jar with these fresh ideas for green pesto. Packed with punchy basil, this zingy herb sauce is perfect for adding a hit of flavour to your everyday dishes without spending a fortune, whether that's a hearty breakfast or your favourite family dinners. Give me a big bowl of Israeli couscous salad, a plate of pesto potato salad or a healthy grain salad and I'm a happy gal! This salad is light, fresh and healthy - everything you look for in a salad. Combine the vegetable and olive oil in a liquid measuring cup; set aside. This easy Thai basil pesto is a healthy way to Thai-i-fy noodles, rice, tofu and veggies in a hurry. Thank you and good luck