Dairy Free Power Me Up Pesto

by ALEXA

Foods like this dairy free pesto leave my body screaming for more. Use it as a pesto over pasta, as a sauce or as a dip. I love it snuggled up to my scrambled eggs.

Foods like this dairy free Power Me Up Pesto leave my body screaming for more. Use it as a pesto over pasta, as a sauce or as a dip. I love it snuggled up to my scrambled eggs.

Last week my friend and I crossed the finish line of Dr. Sara Gottfried’s 21 Hormone Reset Detox. Fundamental to Dr. Sara’s detox is consuming a pound of veggies a day. Some days that wasn’t an easy feat, but this Power Me Up Pesto made it tons easier!

This sauce, glop, dairy free pesto—whatever we should call it—is quite addicting. I think it’s one of those foods that is so good for you that your body screams for more. It’s quite possibly the most nutrition-packed concoction I’ve ever consumed.

The recipe here is an adaptation of Pinch of Yum’s Magic Green Sauce recipe. What I like about it is that you can toss all the ingredients (more of this, less of that) into a food processor, whiz it up and enjoy it all week. Dollop this dairy free pesto it anywhere—on a frittata, over pasta, atop steamed fish, or on each of your ten fingers. Or enjoy it with crackers or from a spoon. Thank you Lindsay, great recipe! Thank you Christy, for making it and sharing it during our detox!

Dairy-Free Power Me Up Pesto

Dairy-Free Power Me Up Pesto

Ingredients

  • Lots of cilantro (one huge bunch or two smaller bunches)
  • Lots of parsley (one huge bunch or two smaller bunches)
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 tablespoon jarred pickled jalapeno slices (or more if you like heat)
  • 3/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
  • 3/4 cup raw cashews (or more pumpkin seeds to make it nut-free)
  • 4 tablespoons fresh lime juice
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients into the bowl of a 10 to 12-cup food processor fitted with the "S" blade. Process until the consistency of pesto.
  2. Keep in fridge up to 5 days.
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8 comments

Shirley Braden May 16, 2015 - 2:20 am

I need this pesto! Yes, a pound of veggies is a lot, but there are definitely some that I can easily eat a pound of. 😉 Thanks, Lexie!

Shirley

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Lexie May 18, 2015 - 1:17 am

You sent me to contemplate my favorite veggie. I think it would have to be kale—massaged with olive oil and dressed ever so lightly 🙂 Great to hear from you!! xoLexie

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Edward Quaintance May 17, 2015 - 12:25 am

Great fun; we’ll try it! Why cilantro and parsley, and no basil? Do I wash and soak and rinse the raw cashews (ie, detox them too)? What happened to the one pound of broccoli per day to make your dietary goal, there, eh?

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Lexie May 18, 2015 - 1:14 am

Hello Mr. Q! Cilantro/parsley vs. basil? Simply a budget choice. However, come summertime I will be throwing basil in fur shure! Started some from last year’s seeds and they are slowly coming along out in the garden. I hope to have lots of it to go with my Black Krim and Kellogg’s Breakfast heirloom tomatoes … Mmmmmm, mmmmm. Of course this pesto would go great on those, too! xoLexie

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Felicia Mogavero May 18, 2015 - 7:22 pm

Cool take on a pesto – love the use of avocado, cilantro and pickled jalapeno! We are familiar with Dr. Gottfried’s book The Hormone Cure, would you recommend the detox?

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Lexie May 18, 2015 - 7:36 pm

Hi Felicia, Love your name. I had a great friend growing up named Felicia 🙂 Anyway, I got Dr Sara’s Hormone Reset Book as well as paid to join the Spring detox (you get Facebook support and step by step guidance online). I think the book is ample … and can be followed to do the detox. Paying the $90-something I did for the online support would be great for a newbie, but if you’ve done detoxes before, the book should be enough to go by. At about day 10 I began to grow a little weary. I think that is my threshold for being ultra-disicplined. But I did complete the entire 21 days. How she prescribes to eat (every 3 days you give up something new … it starts with red meat, then sugar, then fructose … dairy, grains and so on) is how I already do eat. But adding the 1 pound of veggies a day plus extra fiber was a good exercise for me. I did buy her shakes and supplements just to try them. They were good, but with anything, after 21 days I was a little over the shakes. The first week was major elimination if you know what I mean … things really got moving … I would start a little easier on the extra fiber, too. All the women in the FB group said the same thing. 🙂 At the end of it all, I felt good because I had been eating so well. I did not lose weight, but am not sure I had much to lose (I am 5’8" and weigh 138). I just need to tone up … but that has been so hard for me with my low testosterone levels. I think the detox is worth a try for anyone who just can’t seem to lose the weight.

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We Can eat August 19, 2015 - 8:22 pm

I cant wait to try this recipe. Thanks

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Lexie August 19, 2015 - 8:41 pm

We Can Eat, it is the bomb. Play around with different herbs. I’ve been making this all summer as my healthy snack food. 🙂 xoLexie

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