Thai green pesto

Source : Put All Dry Ingredients Into The Pestle Mortar Or Food Processor Pound Them All Together In The Pestle And Mortar Or Blitzed Them In The Food Processor...

PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings

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at : July 18, 2026

Step:

  1. Put all dry ingredients into the pestle mortar or food processor. Pound them all together in the pestle and mortar or blitzed them in the food processor until all finely chopped and form into paste

  2. Pour vegetable or olive oil in the pestle and mortar and mix it together. For food processor pour oil through the feed tube to make a paste. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (The pesto can be refrigerated in a covered container, with a very thin layer of vegetable oil poured on top to seal the surface, for up to 2 weeks, or frozen for up to 3 months. Bring to room temperature and stir well before using.)

  3. Can be cook with stir fried rice on my recipe or simply add on to pasta


Ingredients

  1. 1/4 cup vegetable oil or olive oil
  2. 2 garlic clove, crushed under a knife and peeled
  3. 1/2 cup coarsely chopped roasted unsalted cashews (or you can use pine nuts)
  4. 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
  5. 1 lemon grass finely sliced (peel outside skin off and use just inside from the root up to half way of the lemon grass)
  6. 1 teaspoon Thai fish sauce
  7. 2 packed Thai basil leaves or Italian basil leaves if you cant find Thai
  8. 1-2 anchovies
  9. 4-5 mint leaves
  10. 1 tsp thai chilli flakes
  11. 1 pinch salt and pepper
  12. 1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

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