Meet Lemon Pesto: The 5-Ingredient No-Cook Sauce Ready Before Your Pasta's Done Boiling

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This lemon pesto sauce, a pesto that hails from the Amalfi Coast of Italy, is bright and rich, made with zesty, slightly bitter lemon zest rather than basil leaves. It has so many uses: try it as a spread, a pasta sauce, over chicken, or as the base of a dip.

Prep
18 min
Cook
25 min
Servings
Difficulty
Medium

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Gather all ingredients.
  2. 2 Using a Y-peeler, remove yellow zest from lemons in large strips, avoiding the bitter white pith as much as possible. This should yield about 1/2 cup zest. Juice lemons to yield 1/4 cup juice. Discard juiced, skinned lemons; reserve any unjuiced lemons for another use.
  3. 3 Place lemon zest, lemon juice, Parmesan, almonds, water, garlic, salt, sugar, pepper, and 3 tablespoons oil in the jar of a blender; process until lemon zest is finely chopped and mixture is roughly combined, about 15 seconds, stopping to scrape down sides as needed.
  4. 4 With blender running, slowly pour remaining 3 tablespoons oil through food chute, processing until mostly smooth and emulsified, about 1 minute, stopping to scrape down sides as needed.
  5. 5 Use immediately or store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

Nutrition per serving

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