Italian🥫 Sauces & condiments

Garlic Scape Pesto

Name: Garlic Scape Pesto
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: ~2 cups Garlic scapes; ~½ cup Pistachios; ~1 tbsp Lemon zest; ~2 tbsp Lemon juice; ~½ tsp Salt; ~¼ tsp Black pepper; ~½ cup Olive oil

A vibrant pesto made from garlic scapes—the tender flower stalks harvested from garlic plants. With a texture similar to asparagus, mild sweetness, and a gentler garlic flavor, it's a delicious way to use this often-discarded ingredient, especially great tossed with fresh pasta.

High-protein

Adapted from a video by LifebyMikeG

Garlic Scapes🧄

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Ingredients

Garlic scapesRemove the tough top flower bud~2 cupsest.
Pistachios~½ cupest.
Lemon zest~1 tbspest.
Lemon juice~2 tbspest.
Salt~½ tspest.
Black pepper~¼ tspest.
Olive oil~½ cupest.

Steps

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1
After harvesting the garlic scapes, trim off the tougher flower bud at the top of each stem.
2
Place the trimmed scapes in a food processor along with pistachios, lemon zest, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
3
Process everything while slowly streaming in olive oil to emulsify the pesto into a smooth sauce.
4
The finished garlic scape pesto freezes well for later use and is delicious tossed with fresh pasta.

Garlic Scape Pesto

Ingredients

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