This easy homemade 5 minute pesto recipe tastes absolutely delicious. Simple Spinach Cashew Pesto is great served on pasta, potatoes, crostini or even as a dip!
Simple 5-Minute Spinach Cashew Pesto
So often I use a cream or tomato based sauce for pasta, yet serving it with pesto from time to time changes up the ordinary and packs a punch in flavour. Especially when added to our Pesto Chicken Quesadillas. Now this is a great chicken recipe!
This easy Spinach Pesto recipe takes less than 5 minutes to make, and certainly makes you feel like a professional Italian cook at the same time.
If you are one that usually uses canned pasta sauce, give this a try and see how easy it is to make something new and amazing.
For this particular recipe I used salted roasted cashews, though roasting them is completely optional. Making this using cashews gives pesto a very different flavour to your traditional pesto with pine nuts.
I had some leftover roasted garlic and used it in this recipe too, which in my opinion gave it a much butter flavour than using just plain garlic.
This is just a tip if you have some one hand or want to take that extra step with this recipe.
What to use Pesto for?
While usually I serve it as a sauce for pasta, you can also use on baked potatoes, crostini, or even as a dip for chips!
This is one recipe that I’ve been making for a long time, yet never thought to blog it. Yet it’s the easy and fantastic recipe that I use most, that I’ve been focusing on sharing with my readers – so here you go!
What do you do with pesto?
Check out my Healthy Kale Pesto Pasta recipe, this is a great one that I need to make more often that’s for sure.
If you are craving pasta and want to make a casserole variety, because pop into the oven is so easy, try this Chicken and Spinach Pasta Casserole. You also can’t go wrong with Baked Chicken Spaghetti, it’s always been a top trending recipe on the blog!
This easy homemade 5 minute pesto recipe tastes absolutely delicious. Simple Spinach Cashew Pesto is great served on pasta, potatoes, crostini or even as a dip!
Simple Spinach Cashew Pesto
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2
Serving Size: 2 people
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 954Saturated Fat: 15gCholesterol: 3mgSodium: 184mgCarbohydrates: 21gFiber: 4gSugar: 2gProtein: 12g
jan says
How handy. I am wanting to make pesto tonight, but do not have any pine nuts. However, I do have cashews!
Lynda Cook says
Mmmm, this sounds very tasty and i am going to have to give it a try, using cashews is a nice change!!
Sarah says
Yum! I love this idea. We usually do tomato or cream based sauces as well.
Chris MacDonald says
I love Pesto. I grow lots of basil in my garden and make it every year in big batches so I can freeze what I can’t use right away. This year I grew parsley in my garden and found a great Parsley Lemon Pesto recipe which I can’t wait to try. This Spinach cashew recipe looks yummy! I will try it!