No Blender Sundried Tomato Pesto

alecta337

This sauce is super delish! You can use it over pasta or on chicken
I know the calorie content is kinda high, so its not an every day thing. Its a special occasion yummy treat.

I made up this recipe the other day because I wanted to make pesto, but I don't have a blender in my dorm room. Its a little more time consuming than just dumping everything into a blender, but its so good! Also it is high in fat because the olive oil, but its good fats.

Serves 6
Calories per serving: 269
Carbs: 8
Protein: 6
Fat: 24
Fiber: 2

Ingredients
**These ratios do not have to be exact, I basically mixed and tasted, mixed and tasted till I found exactly what I wanted**
½ cup pine nuts
½ cup grated parmesan cheese
½ small container Roasted Garlic Hunt’s Tomato Sauce (3/5 cup)
1/3 container of Basil Paste (Gourmet Garden) (about 1/4 cup)
3 garlic gloves (or 3 tbsp garlic paste)
2 oz Sundried tomatoes, and all the oil from the jar (I used a 8.5oz jar which produced almost 1/2 cup oil)

Instructions
1. Roast the pine nuts in a dry medium frying pan on medium heat. Only roast as many nuts fit in an even layer on the bottom of the pan, you may have to roast them in 2 batches. Roast them until they are golden brown, be sure to keep them moving and watch them, they burn fast.
2. Slice the garlic into thin pieces then again to make very small pieces. (You can skip this step in you’re using garlic paste) While you do this, let your pine nuts cool on a plate.
3. Pour the oil from the sundried tomato jar into the medium frying pan and add the garlic pieces (or paste). Heat this mixture on a low heat until the garlic pieces are golden brown.
4. While your oil is soaking up the garlic flavor, crush the cooled pine nuts on a cutting board with the back of a spoon. They should easily crush into a powder. The powder might be kind of sticky because the nuts released oils when they were roasted, this is fine. Put this powder to the side.
5. Slice the sundried tomatoes into very small pieces.
6. In a medium bowl start mixing the ingredients. Start with the basil paste and small sundried tomato pieces. Add the Hunt’s tomato sauce. Add some parmesan cheese, pine nuts, and oil garlic mixture. Keep adding the last 3 ingredients until you get a consistency and taste you like.
7. Enjoy!!!


If you don't like sun-dried tomatoes, you can make the same recipe, just use 1/2 cup olive oil to cook with the garlic.