Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, low fat basil pesto. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pesto is one of the things I whip up all summer long, but pesto can have a lot of oil and fat when made traditionally which can make a dish heavier than Making pesto at the end of the summer and keeping it in the freezer is also a great way to use up the last of the basil from your garden so that you can. Great recipe for Low fat basil pesto. I needed a #lowfat version so I made this.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook low fat basil pesto using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Low fat basil pesto:
- Make ready 2.5 cups packed fresh basil
- Get 1 cup pecans, soaked in water overnight or in hot water for at least 1 hour
- Make ready 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- Get 3/4-1 cup water
- Get 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Make ready Freshly ground black pepper to taste
This low fat version of pesto is simply wonderful, and it's just bursting with fresh flavor. I really like the flavor of traditional pesto, but the addition of the tomatoes in this recipe really, really goes well with all that lovely fresh basil. This makes just enough pesto for one pound of your favorite cooked pasta. This delicious recipe makes use of our fantastic Skinny Basil Pesto, perfect for adding low-fat low-carb flavor to your favorite recipes.
Instructions to make Low fat basil pesto:
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Drain pecans of the soaking water, lay them out on a silicone baking mat and roast for about 20-25 minutes until toasty but not burned.
- Add all ingredients to a food processor and run it until ingredients are incorporated. Add enough water so it forms a paste. You’re done. Enjoy your basil pesto.
A low-fat basil pesto because I make this without pignoli nuts. It's a perfect way to add flavor to so many meals and appetizers, without adding I have a low-fat pesto that makes amazing pesto pasta, chicken pesto, shrimp pesto….endless possibilities. Skinny Basil Pesto is so much better than any. The problem with most low-fat pesto recipes is that they just don't have that punch of basil flavor, or they aren't very creamy. Most of them replace the oil with something less caloric, but yogurt is too tangy, and chicken stock doesn't have the rich mouth feel that we love so much.
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