Recipe

Red Pepper Pesto Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Jo_jo_ba / All my dishes 2 years, 4 months ago A different take on pesto, using roasted red peppers, nutritional yeast and garlic scapes with the traditional basil. Something I'm both willing and ABLE to eat! Prep:5m Servings:2	Jo_jo_ba
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Ingredients

1/3 cup fresh basil (leaves, stem and flowers can be used)

3-4 strips jarred roasted red pepper (about 1/3 pepper)

3 garlic scapes, chopped

1/4 tsp crushed chili flakes

1 tsp nutritional yeast flakes

1/4 tsp dried oregano

1/2 tsp lemon juice

Directions

Place all ingredients into a small food processor.

Process to desired consistency, adding water if required to reach smoothness.

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Comments

surfergirl 2 years, 4 months ago said:
Looks lovely, but what's garlic 'scapes' - once again my NZ English does not compute US...thanks!

jo_jo_ba 2 years, 4 months ago said:
Garlic scapes are the green shoots that the garlic plants send up as they grow. I found some at our farmer's market this weekend. You can always substitute garlic cloves for the same flavour.

boofie 2 years, 4 months ago said:
This looks GREAT and as a veghead I LOVE seeing nutritional yeast thrown in. What a great way to make sometimes-naughty pesto a lot healthier and dairy free for us vegans!

boofie 2 years, 4 months ago said:
Ps--yay for crushed pepper flakes. Never thought of giving my pesto a kick :)

vilerat 2 years, 2 months ago said:
This sounds great! i've got to try it. i usually just toss some extra garlic in for a kick.

mystic_river1 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Delicious... I advise everyone make this immediately LOL TY for post

catbot79 1 year, 8 months ago said:
I have been dying for red pepper pesto ever since I stopped being able to find the Knorr red-pepper-pesto-in-a-packet mix at my local stores. This looks even better, actually; I cannot wait to make it. Do you recommend any particular brands of nutritional yeast? I don't really know where to start on that. I don't have any...

jo_jo_ba 1 year, 8 months ago said:
RedStar is the most popular, I have my local health food store's brand though... just make sure it's nutritional yeast and not baking!! I made that mistake in the beginning... thought they were the same!

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