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Simple Wild Garlic Pesto

Try this easy, wild garlic pesto recipe. It's perfect for pepping up spring dishes!
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Servings: 1 jar
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 100 grams wild garlic
  • 50 grams Parmesan cheese
  • 50 grams toasted walnuts
  • 1 lemon
  • olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste

Method
 

  1. Wash wild garlic leaves thoroughly and blot dry with a tea towel.
  2. Place the leaves into a food processor and blitz until they're coarsely chopped.
  3. Grate the Parmesan and add to the chopped leaves, along with the juice of half a lemon, a good glug of olive oil, and the toasted walnuts. Blitz until everything is finely chopped. Taste as you go, and add more oil and/or lemon juice if the mixture looks too thick.
    Add salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Transfer the pesto to a clean jar, and cover the top with a slick of olive oil to help preserve it.

Notes

The oil covered pesto can keep in the fridge for up to two weeks.
Alternatively, freeze the pesto in an ice-cube tray and enjoy the punchy flavour of spring wild garlic throughout the year!