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Lightened Up Creamy Vegan Avocado Pesto

This avocado pesto is creamy, packed with flavor, and amazing with everything. It's perfect with zucchini noodles or pasta, as a low calorie salad dressing, mixed with eggs, as a dip for grilled vegetables, spread onto a sandwich, or as a sauce for a buddha bowl. The options are endless!
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Servings: 10 1/4 cup servings
Course: Dip
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups basil (packed)
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 cup frozen cauliflower rice
  • 3/4 cups water
  • 1/2 cup frozen spinach
  • 1/3 cup nutritional yeast
  • 5 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup walnuts*
  • 1 Tbsp minced garlic
  • 1 Tbsp chia seed powder**
  • 1/2-3/4 tsp Himalayan sea salt to taste
  • 1/4 tsp cracked pepper

Equipment

  • Blender

Method
 

  1. Add all ingredients* to blender and blend until combined and creamy.

Notes

*Wait to add walnuts until after ingredients have been combined and then pulse to create small chopped walnuts if desired for a little bit of chew vs completely creamy consistency.
**Place 1 tablespoon of chia seeds in a grinder and pulse until fine to create chia seed powder.