When I decided to focus on oils this month, I knew I had to make a pesto recipe. They’re so easy to make and it’s great how you can choose your oils and nuts and make them as nutritious as possible, even despite the high fat content. Today I’m sharing this lemon and olive pesto recipe because, guys, I’m so bored of basil. It’s great. But I’m getting sick of it, and I don’t know if it’s because we’re entering spring, but I’m obsessed with anything lemony right now.
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Nutritional Information
I used some of the Pimp My Salad Cashew Parm in this recipe and that contains cashews and nutritional yeast, unfortunately their packaging doesn’t provide any vitamin or mineral data, so a lot of the nutritional goodness in this recipe can’t be tracked.
The information below, in terms of vitamins and minerals is a minimum, it definitely contains more than what’s listed.
I hate figuring out serving sizes for things like this. At the end of the day, the amount you use varies massively depending on how you’re using it. A bowl of pasta is going to use more than a tiny bin a wrap, and both are valid serving suggestions.
Serving Size?
This recipe makes approximately 8 heaped tbsp of pesto, which works out at 123 calories per serving. As that’s roughly the same as store bought pesto, I’m working on that being a serving size for the sake of calculating the nutrition. Obviously, use as much as you want/ need.
Nutrients from fat content
Each serving contains a quarter of the RDA of vitamin E and 40% of the RDA of omega 6, as a minimum. As the parmesan contains both cashews and sunflower seeds, this will definitely be higher. The nutritional yeast in the parmesan will also provide smaller amounts of several B vitamins.
Vegan Lemon & Olive Pesto Recipe
A fresh and zesty pesto recipe, ready in less than 5 minutes and a great alternative to traditional flavours for spring and summer.
This recipe is gluten free, soy free, dairy free and vegan. It does contain nuts.
Vegan Lemon & Olive Pesto Recipe
Ingredients
- ¼ cup sunflower oil
- 50 g vegan parmesan
- 1 cup of pitted queen olives
- Juice of one lemon
- 1 tbsp dried rosemary
Instructions
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Add all ingredients to a blender or food processor and mix until smooth.
Serve and enjoy!
Are you a pesto fan? Do you like trying different flavours too?
Until next time,
Sophie
I really like pesto, but only in small amounts otherwise I find it really strong. Having it with lemon in it sounds like a great way of getting past that. This looks delicious – I should really stop reading your posts while hungry, haha!
This sounds like such an interesting recipe! I love olives so I definitely want to try this. Thanks for sharing!
Great recipe! Thanks for sharing it! Pesto is so nice and I love how you’ve added lemon to it in this recipe! I also like that it is quick and easy to make!
Mmmh this looks so delicious, love olives and would love to try..
This sounds delicious and seems so easy to make – thanks for sharing!
Now this is my kind of recipe! This looks delicious Sophie! x
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This. looks. so. delicious. I’m bookmarking this recipe right now!
xx Sara
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This looks so yummy! Need to give it a try!
Molly xx
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Ooh! This is so interesting. I’ve never heard of an olive pesto! Reminds me of tapenade! Would love to try this!! Thanks for sharing xx
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This sounds amazing! I would love to try this!
xoxo
Lovely
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I love anything lemon flavoured! This looks so yummy and unique, I’ll definitely have to give it a go xx
I love cooking and trying out new things and flavor combos, thank you for this! I can’t wait to try it. <3
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This looks really delicious and easy to make. Totally have to try to make.
I’ve never tried lemon in pasta before but this looks good and I bet it tastes amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Hope that your week is going well 🙂
This look really yummy, so many people are going plant-based for fertility, it is a great recipe!
I love pesto! I can’t wait to give this a try. Thanks for sharing!!
This sounds delicious thanks for sharing! I love the addition of rosemary, i’m here for anything with rosemary in! Milli x – http://millidavison.co.uk/
There is no doubt basil is powerful stuff. I enjoy it in pasta and with tomato/mozzarella stacks, but I love this creative olive and lemon pesto! I feel you on lemon tasting and smelling of spring; I just made lemon loaf cake today. 🙂
Thanks for sharing an interesting alternative to the traditional basil spread!
This looks so yummy! We just made a pesto pasta salad last week – perfect time of year for it!
I love how easy this recipe looks! I’ll try it next time I make pasta! Thanks for sharing <3
This sounds delicious! I never tried olive pesto so I really need to try this out, my sisters love pesto so this would be a great treat! Thanks for sharing x
I’m exactly the same when it comes to Spring – I want to put lemon on everything! This sounds like a great alternative pesto recipe that’ll be great for Spring/Summer x
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I love the sound of this recipe! Lemony pesto is so spring like!
This looks absolutely delicious and packed full of nutrients, I imagine it would be especially good on a bruschetta!
This recipe looks good. I would totally try this out and it looks easy to make.
Normally I love to try your recipes but I can’t stand olives! xD It looks nice though so good job!
That looks absolutely divine!
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I love pesto 🙂
I love having pesto with my pasta, I usually have a pesto and broccoli pasta and it’s probably one of my favourite meals. I have never thought about making my own pesto before though so this has given me some inspo! xx
Great variation idea! I love pesto but we’ve definitely had it too often and I am sure the whole family could use a change. I saved this on Pinterest so I can find the recipe again 🙂