Friday, May 20, 2011

Moroccan Inspired Pesto



Finally. It seems that warm weather has finally arrived! M and I went to the nursery today to get flowers and herbs for our garden. We ended up getting all kinds of yummy stuff such as rosemary, thai basil, lovage, parsley. We bought so much of it, that by the time we arrived back home the entire car was infused with all these different, highly aromatic lovely smells of summer.



You can probably imagine, that as soon as our flowers and herbs were planted, we immediately found ourselves in the kitchen experimenting. We finally agreed that this Moroccan inspired pesto is going to play a big role in a lot of dishes this summer. You will find that it is nice and light and quite refreshing compared to the traditional Italian style pesto you may know.

Ingredients:

1 cup     tightly packed fresh parsley
1/2 cup   tightly packed basil
6 fresh   mint leaves
1/2 tsp.  ground cumin
1 clove   garlic, minced
1/4 cup   extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp.   fresh lemon juice
1/4 tsp.  salt

 
Preparations:
Combine all ingredients in a food processor and process until well blended.

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