Enjoy all of the nutrients of fresh ingredients you can get at the farmers market blended into one delicious and simple sauce. Getting fresh produce from farmers markets or even your own garden can produce a lot of extra greenery and goodness. For instance, carrot tops or beet greens. This greenery isn’t waste! It can be used for delicious sauces (or smoothies) that are full of nutrients like vitamin C and K. This pesto sauce is delicious to have with meat, on toast, veggies, eggs or on your pasta.
Ingredients:
1 cup carrot top greens (washed and with the stems removed)
1 cup of washed greens (lettuce with gentle flavors like romaine, spinach, mixed greens, beet green tops etc)
1 garlic clove chopped
1/2 cup of cashews (and or walnuts or sunflower seeds)
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
~1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 cup organic virgin olive oil
Directions:
Wash and prep the carrot tops and greens. Feel the energy that is present in the fresh veggies. Take a moment of gratitude for the earth that grew these goodies. The farmers who picked them and for the ability of these nourishing vegetables to be in your hands and entering your body.
In a food processor, add all of the ingredients and our the olive oil in last.
Blend evenly for a few minutes. Connect to your senses. Watch the shade of green that unfolds. Notice the smells. Do certain memories come to mind? Notice if your taste buds water thinking about what you get to eat this with?
Store in an airtight jar in the fridge up to a week or freeze and use for a different time.
Enjoy eating this sauce mindfully. Can you taste the natural and simple ingredients? How does it make your body feel?