Semi-Dried Tomato Macadamia Pesto
April 29, 2010
This raw vegan semi-dried tomato and macadamia pesto is super easy and seriously delicious. Just throw everything into your food processor.
Semi-Dried Tomato Macadamia Pesto
This raw vegan semi-dried tomato and macadamia pesto is super easy and seriously delicious. Just throw everything into your food processor.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 3 cups
Ingredients
- 1 cup semi-dried tomatoes packed in olive oil, drained (not sun-dried tomatoes)
- 1/2 cup raw unsalted macadamias, plus more to taste
- 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, plus more to taste
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Celtic sea salt, plus more to taste
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
- Pinch of red pepper flakes, plus more to taste
Instructions
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Throw everything into a food processor fitted with the s blade, and pulse until rustically combined. Tweak basil, salt, and pepper to taste.
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Serve as a dip with vegetables or crackers, or stir through pasta with olive oil.
Recipe Notes
Recipe from The Australian Macadamia Society
Photo by Trent Lanz and styling by Alicia Buszczak
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Comments 8
I made for the first time the other day…thanks for posting it! Incredible and so so easy. I had it with some gluten free pasta accompanied by a green salad. Perfecto!
I have bought all the ingredients and i am ready to rock this pesto in my home made risotto tonight. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
My friends were licking the bowl clean after I made up this dip for them!! They thought I was a masterchef… little did they know how stupidly easy it is to make! Delicious!
Silly question… but, we are are using two different kinds of oils in this recipe right? Olive and CP Extra Virgin? Or can I soak the sundried tomatoes in CPEVOO?
Thanks 🙂
Hey Piggy Victoria
Not a silly question. I was a bit confusing in my instructions. Sorry about that.
If you purchase tomatoes in good olive oil you can use some of that oil.
But I prefer to use my own CPEVOO.
Soaking them in that is a fantastic idea.
Just add the oil gradually so the dip doesn’t get too oily and it doesn’t overpower the natural flavour of the semi-dried tomatoes.
Let me know how you go.
This pesto is piggilicious. Oink Oink 🙂
Thank you so much for responding 🙂
One more question… we don’t soak the macadamia nuts, correct?
Pleasure Victoria!
I soak all of my raw nuts in order to make them easier to digest. Macadamias only need a couple of hours. But this is not essential in order to enjoy this recipe. You can just throw them in raw.
This is one of the simplest and most delicious dips I have ever tasted.