Homemade Pesto Sauce {Low Carb/Keto}
You don't have to be a gourmet chef to enjoy Homemade Pesto Sauce! Get my Keto friendly recipe below!
Please note: We do not follow a strict Keto diet. I may offer shortcuts and tips for those on a busy schedule.
Homemade Pesto Sauce
I always loved a fun “gourmet”meal at home occasionally. It was a nice break in routine from the regular meals we seemed to have week to week.
Sometimes those extra-special meals can be pricey as far as ingredients go. Pesto Sauce is on my list of these special ingredients, and not something I would buy just to have in my kitchen normally. However, you can actually make your own AND freeze it, so you can easily enjoy pasta, pizza or Italian breads with pesto.
Buying these ingredients separately is actually easy and affordable. If you don't grow your own Basil at home (it actually does grow really well here in Oklahoma), just buy a handful at the grocery store or farmers market.
I do mention farmer's market as a good place to find basil, since it's going to be fresher and probably less expensive than your larger grocers.
The other items are Parmesan cheese, Pine Nuts and Walnuts. The nuts can be found on Amazon at my links, or at your larger grocery stores like Walmart. Be sure to select unseasoned walnuts! You definitely don't want any of the salted or candied varieties accidentally going into your Pesto Sauce. 🙂
Mix it Up!
Blend all ingredients using a food processor or blender. I use my Ninja Kitchen food processor and love it. I've had other processors in the past but this one is a workhorse in the kitchen and always blends sauces well.
For this I would pulse a few times and then move to the blend setting.
You want your pesto sauce to be uniform, so continue blending until it reaches this stage. I don't really know if you could overly blend it. I just blend until it has a rough but spreadable consistency with no chunks of basil, pictured above.
You will see small bits of the basil, and that's perfectly acceptable.
Stay tuned for ways to use my Homemade Pesto Sauce! With this recipe you won't be using all of it at once, so I recommend a silicone or plastic ice cube tray to freeze your Pesto Sauce in. I do 2 Tablespoon portions but whatever you will use at once will work. After they are frozen, it's important to pop them out and insert into a sealed freezer bag or sealed container to avoid a freezer taste.
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Homemade Pesto Sauce
You don't have to be a gourmet chef to enjoy Homemade Pesto Sauce! Get my Keto friendly recipe below!
Ingredients
- 4 cups basil, fresh , packed
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese, shredded
- 1 cup Walnuts, or pine nuts
- 6 lg garlic cloves
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Process all ingredients in food processor until smooth, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
- Fill an ice tray about 1 tablespoon per cube and freeze.
- You can also store in the refrigerator up to 5 days (float a layer of olive oil on top to prevent discoloring.
Nutrition Information
Yield
16Amount Per Serving Calories 74Saturated Fat 1gCholesterol 4mgSodium 136mgCarbohydrates 1gProtein 3g
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My family started doing Keto in June of 2018. We chose to do Keto because my husband has Ankylosing Spondylitis and my son has horrible Psoriasis.
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