Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Asian Watercress Pesto


I have been messing around with a new recipe for Asian Watercress pesto, it's good on anything, tonight we ate it smeared over some grilled chicken.

Here is my recipe for Asian Watercress Pesto:

1 bunch watercress
3 cubes frozen garlic
3 cubes frozen ginger
3 cubes frozen cilantro
1/2 C. toasted walnuts, pine nuts or pecans
kosher salt
zest and juice from 1 lime
1 1/2 C. olive oil

Combine all ingredients except olive oil into a food processor. Process and slowly add olive oil. This pesto can be thinned out with more olive oil or kept on the thick side. It freezes beautifully if you happen to have a run on watercress. It's delicious tossed in with udon noodles, smeared on salmon then roasted or even used as a thinned out sauce for steak.

Give it a try, it's a delicious variation on traditional pesto.

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