This easy Hemp Seed Pesto Sauce is made gluten free, dairy free and nut free. It’s a great way to add in protein and essential fatty acids into a simple pesto sauce. Hemp seeds are completely safe, in fact are a great nutrient-dense addition to recipes with a rich, nutty flavour.
Hemp Seed Pesto Sauce
This vegan pesto is made using hemp seeds, which are derived from the cannabis sativa plant. You won’t get high from eating them as they don’t have psychoactive properties. They are an eco-friendly crop and are loaded with nutritional benefits. Benefits such as essential fatty acids, complete protein with all twenty amino acids, Omega 6, Omega 3, zinc, phosphorus and magnesium.
This pesto sauce is made nut free so perfect to add in to your little one’s school lunchboxes, maybe added to pizza scrolls, a little in their chicken and salad wraps or as a dip with crackers or veggie sticks. This freezes really well, just freeze into portions for an easy grab pasta sauce on busy weeknights!
Why not try some of these yummy, super quick, midweek dinners we had using this pesto sauce. (will post recipes this week!)
ONE POT LAMB CUTLETS + POTATOES
CHICKEN, PESTO + ZUCCHINI NOODLES
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Hemp Seed Pesto
Description
Hemp Seed Pesto made with seeds, garlic, basil, spinach, olive oil and lemon juice. Making it gluten, dairy and nut free.
Ingredients
- ½ cup hemp seeds
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 cup basil leaves
- 1 cup spinach leaves
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- salt & pepper
Instructions
MORTAR & PESTLE METHOD
Place in the hemp seeds, garlic, salt and pepper and pound with a mortar and pestle. Slowly add the basil and spinach leaves and bash to a paste. Add in the olive oil and lemon juice and mix to combine.
FOOD PROCESSOR
Place the hemp seeds, garlic, salt and pepper into a small food processor and pulse a few times. Scrape down sides, add the basil and spinach and pulse again. Add the lemon juice and give it a quick blitz. While the blade is running, drizzle in the olive oil, scrape down sides and give one more pulse to combine.
Notes
You could add 2 tablespoons of parmesan cheese to this recipe. Just add in with the basil and spinach.
If using the food processor, you don’t want to overwork it once the oil has been added, just until it has combined.
You can add in more or less olive oil, depending on the consistency you like your pesto.
You can freeze this in portions.
WHERE TO BUY HEMP SEEDS?
I get my hemp seeds, and all my dry goods from my local scoop and weigh store, Cape Wholefoods in Dunsborough, you can also order them online through their store Southwest Provisions. I love our nutrient dense hemps seeds are and that they are an eco friendly crop. Plus they taste delicious!
