Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, carrot greens pesto. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
With fresh and bright flavors, this carrot top pesto makes use of the oft-scorned greens from your carrot bunch, complementing them with fresh lemon, garlic, and herbs. Ready in just a few minutes and perfect on pasta, sandwiches, crackers and more. Course condiments, sauces, spreads Carrot Top Pesto, a simple pesto recipe made from fresh carrot greens, pine nuts, parmesan cheese, garlic, and oil. A unique food waste recovery recipe!
Carrot Greens Pesto is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Carrot Greens Pesto is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have carrot greens pesto using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Greens Pesto:
- Take 1 Bunch Carrot Tops (washed please)
- Prepare 3/4 Cup Olive Oil (roughly)
- Take 3 Cloves Garlic (smashed)
- Prepare 1/3 Cup Assorted Nuts and Seeds (Flax, Peanuts. Hemp, Pine Nuts)
- Prepare 1/3 Cup Hard Cheese (Pecorino Romano, Parmigianno Reggiano)
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
- Get Salt and Pepper (to taste)
Slightly carrot-like, if not a little more bitter, these leafy greens are great in salads, or in something super versatile like a carrot top pesto. Homemade pestos are great for batch-making and then freezing for later use. Add the greens, garlic, pine nuts, basil leaves in a mixer grinder and make a chunky, coarse paste. Season the paste with salt, pepper, olive oil, lemon juice and Parmesan.
Instructions to make Carrot Greens Pesto:
- In a large pot, boil some water. Once boiling add the carrot tops using tongs to get everything immersed in the water. This process only takes 20 to 30 seconds and is referred to as 'blanching'. The color will turn a vibrant green. Immediately remove and place in ice water. This process is referred to as 'shocking' and effectively halts the cooking process, maintaining the vibrant green color. Once cool enough to handle, chop the greens to ensure they will blend without wrapping the blade.
- Combine all ingredients into a blender, and utilizing the plunger (if your blender didn't come with one, just stop periodically and scrape the sides down and stir the mixture a bit) blend to a fine paste. Store with plastic wrap pressed to the surface, or float olive oil on top to deter oxidation which will brown your spread.
- Store and enjoy in 3 weeks or freeze and keep it for up to 6 months. Great additions to this spread are curry and chili powders, cayenne and schwarma seasoning as well! // Use the tops of carrots in this pesto. Then grate the bottom orange portion and mix with miso paste, shoyu, and other various Asian ingredients to marinate chicken thighs. Grill and serve with the pesto, rice or quinoa pilaf and some steamed or grilled vegetables!
Add the greens, garlic, pine nuts, basil leaves in a mixer grinder and make a chunky, coarse paste. Season the paste with salt, pepper, olive oil, lemon juice and Parmesan. Lush and verdant, carrot greens are delicious in their own right, adding an herby bitterness to the classic basil-based pesto. Carrot greens have a distinct earthy, sharp, and bitter taste which is why they are not as versatile as other leafy greens. The thicker part of the stem is also a bit tough and fibrous so I use only the feathery carrot greens and keep the stem for cooking vegetable stock.
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