Homemade spinach pesto is a quick, easy, gluten free & healthy sauce made in just 5 minutes! Perfect for tossing on top of pizza, pasta, eggs or salad!

Spinach Pesto Recipe

There are five things you’ll always find in my refrigerator: pesto, hummus, buffalo sauce, eggs and champagne. You know, all the necessities!

I’m a huge fan of making a big batch of pesto at the beginning of the week and putting it in basically everything I cook for the remainder of the week.

It’s great on pasta, pizza, sweet potatoes, eggs, potato salads, pasta salads and so on and so on!

Homemade Spinach Pesto

If you’re a pesto fan, I’d definitely recommend checking out some of my other pesto creations:

My latest pesto creation came from the simple fact that I purchased one of those huge bags of baby spinach at the grocery store and was trying to figure out what to do with it all before it went bad.

Ding! Pesto! I packed 4 cups of spinach into this pesto recipe and have been adding it to everything I’ve made this week!

Spinach Pesto Ingredients

Spinach Pesto Ingredients

  • 4 cups spinach (chopped)
  • 6 cloves garlic (minced)
  • ½ cup cashews
  • ¼ tsp black pepper
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • ¼ cup parmesan

Spinach Pesto Instructions

Add the spinach, garlic and cashews to a blender or food processor.

** Note: I LOVE garlic (like maybe a little bit too much), but if you’re not as much of a garlic lover, you can cut the amount of cloves in half for a less “garlic-y” pesto.

Spinach Pesto Recipe

Blend for 5-10 seconds.

Spinach Pesto Recipe

Add the salt, pepper and olive oil, blend until all of the ingredients have been incorporated.

Spinach Pesto Recipe

Add the parmesan cheese and pulse for 5-10 seconds to combine.

Presto! You have pesto!

Spinach Pesto Recipe

My new favorite use for this spinach pesto is on top of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, garlic, spinach and mushrooms.

I made that almost every day this week for breakfast, topped it off with a little extra parmesan and OMG, it was so delicious!

Spinach Pesto Recipe

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Spinach Pesto

Homemade spinach pesto is a quick, easy, vegetarian, gluten free & healthy sauce to toss on top of pizza, pasta, eggs or salad.

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Add the spinach, garlic and cashews to a blender or food processor.
  • Blend for 5-10 seconds.
  • Add the salt, pepper and olive oil, blend until all of the ingredients have been incorporated.
  • Add the parmesan cheese and pulse for 5-10 seconds to combine.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 732kcal (37%)Carbohydrates 15g (5%)Protein 12g (24%)Fat 71g (109%)Saturated Fat 12g (60%)Cholesterol 8mg (3%)Sodium 835mg (35%)Potassium 583mg (17%)Fiber 2g (8%)Sugar 2g (2%)Vitamin A 5725mg (115%)Vitamin C 19.6mg (24%)Calcium 236mg (24%)Iron 4.3mg (24%)
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