Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
This Sun-dried Tomato Pesto recipe is perfect on pasta, sandwiches, drizzled over veggies or pizza, stirred into Alfredo sauce, used in soups, and more!
Servings: 1 servings
Calories: 1714kcal
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup pine nuts
- 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes in oil
- 2 cloves garlic peeled
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- kosher salt and black pepper to taste
Instructions
Prepare
- ** This is optional, but if you'd like even more sun-dried tomato flavor, feel free to drain the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes into a small bowl, and use that to stream into the pesto. If you use the oil from the tomatoes, you'll need less olive oil, so keep that in mind. **
- If you're not saving it to use, drain sun-dried tomatoes of the oil.
Toast pine nuts
- Add pine nuts to a skillet and heat over MED LOW heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 3-5 minutes, until lightly toasted and fragrant. Set aside, off the heat.
Pulse
- To a food processor, add drained sun-dried tomatoes, garlic cloves, Parmesan cheese, toasted pine nuts, and basil leaves.
- Pulse 7-10 times, or until finely chopped.
Stream in oil
- Switch on the food processor to continuously run with the lid on, and slowly stream in the olive oil through the small hole in the processor lid.
- Scrape down the sides of the food processor as needed (make sure the food processor is turned off for that), until the mixture is a smooth, loose paste.
Season and pulse again
- Add salt and pepper, to taste, and pulse again to combine everything.
Serve or store
- Serve as is, or store in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to a week.
Notes
- Recipe makes between 1 and 2 cups. However you choose to divide that up into servings is up to you.
- If you don't have a food processor, this pesto can be made in a blender as well.
- Please see the "variations of this recipe" section above the recipe for details about substitutions.
Nutrition
Calories: 1714kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 168g | Saturated Fat: 27g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 30g | Monounsaturated Fat: 100g | Cholesterol: 44mg | Sodium: 1172mg | Potassium: 2143mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 2494IU | Vitamin C: 116mg | Calcium: 534mg | Iron: 7mg
