Pesto

Tired of using spaghetti sauce on your spaghetti squash?  Well, here is an easy alternative to spaghetti sauce: Pesto.  

Can you throw ingredients into a food processor?  Then you can make pesto.

Ingredients:

2 cups of fresh basil

½ cup of olive oil

1/3 cup of toasted pine nuts, walnuts or cashews

2-3 garlic cloves

1 tablespoon red pepper flakes

1 tablespoon of lemon juice

Salt

Directions:

Place basil, nuts, garlic cloves and red pepper flakes into food processor.  Pulse until chopped.  Slowly add olive oil until a smooth consistency is achieved.  Add lemon juice…pulse until incorporated. 

Add salt to taste

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