For salads, pasta and fish: healthy homemade pesto in 3 minutes

Pesto is a very tasty and spicy sauce that can be an ideal addition to vegetables, and it can also be an alternative to mayonnaise and oil. In addition, it cooks very quickly.

Cook Yana shared a recipe for a delicious basil pesto sauce with lemon juice and Parmesan on Instagram.

Ingredients:

• Green basil
• Pine nuts – 30 g
• Lemon juice – 2 tbsp.
• Parmesan cheese – 50 g (about 4 tbsp)
• Olive oil – 50 ml (or sunflower oil)
• 1-2 cloves of garlic

Method of preparation:

1. Wash the basil, put it in a blender bowl, add all the ingredients, and whisk until smooth.

2. Put the sauce in a glass dish and refrigerate.