Pea Pesto

This homemade pea pesto recipe offers a fantastic low-calorie twist on traditional pesto, ideal for generously coating your favourite pasta, delivering a creamy pesto finish that's simply irresistible.

One thing I adore is basil pesto over pasta, but it often racks up the calories unless you're sparing with it, resulting in just a hint of those incredible basil, garlic, and Parmesan flavors that make pesto so delightful.

With this pea pesto, there's no need to hold back on portion size. Half of this entire recipe is surprisingly low in calories, ensuring you can indulge in all the deliciousness without worry.

The peas give it a lovely creaminess and amazing flavour when combined with basil, garlic and parmesan.

For the peas, I recommend using fresh English peas if you can get some in season, if not frozen peas will work fine also.

I cook the peas in some stock to give them some flavour and then reserve a little of the stock, just enough to allow them to blend in a blender, once cooked.

I use my Nutri Ninja Blender with Auto IQ to puree the peas once cooked. This blender is amazing. The auto iq technology feature, mean it blends to a set pattern depending on what it is your are making. There is also an optional add on for a food processor bowl, which is perfect for chopping and grating vegetables.

To make the pesto, I also use my Cuisinart Mini Food Processor, to blitz the basil, parmesan and garlic till finely ground. Once you have done that, you can then fold in the pea puree. Don't blend it all together, as you don't want the pesto completely smooth, you want it to still have flecks of basil, parmesan and garlic. So it's important to just fold everything together till just combined.

Once combined you can then stir in the extra virgin olive oil for that silky creamy pesto finish.

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Once all ready this Pea Pesto and pasta is perfect served on a bed of mixed baby greens for some additional greens. A delicious meal for lunch or dinner.

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