If your lettuce salad is sad and wilted, let's give it a new destiny. Today a recipe that combines the useful with the pleasure: in addition to discovering how to use the salad, we will find an alternative way to dress the pasta with my vegan lettuce and almond pesto.
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 263 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
- 100 g of lettuce
- 30 g of almonds
- 2 g of salt
- 1 pinch of garlic powder
- 1 pinch of pepper
- 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of untreated lemon juice
Materials Needed
- Immersion blender or mortar
- Frying pan or oven
- Becker
- Chopping board
Preparation
- Toast the almonds in a hot oven at 160 ° C for 10 minutes or put them in a pan maintaining a cheerful flame to release the aroma.
The alternative
As a substitute for almonds, you can use pine nuts or walnuts.- Wash the lettuce leaves in cold water, removing traces of soil.
- Cut the lettuce into strips.
- In a beaker, collect all the ingredients: insert the toasted almonds, the strips of lettuce, the pepper, the salt, the garlic powder, the lemon juice and the extra virgin olive oil.
- Insert the mixer and blend everything intermittently, adding one or two tablespoons of cold water, if necessary.
Did you know that
Those who wish can replace the immersion mixer with a mortar: in this way, a pesto proper will be prepared, even if the consistency will be more grainy.
The addition of lemon juice is useful to prevent oxidation and to increase the absorption of the iron present in the lettuce.- The lettuce sauce is ready: it can be used immediately to flavor pasta, as if it were a classic Genoese pesto or to make innovative canapes.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
Lettuce pesto is special for giving a new flavor not only to pasta, but also to baked risotto and lasagna. Try it on canapés too!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
ATTENTION! The nutritional translation does not take into account the presence of salt, pepper, lemon juice and garlic powder, which are present in variable but very limited quantities.
Lettuce and Almond Pesto is a food that belongs to the group of seasoning sauces.
It has a high energy intake, mainly provided by lipids, followed by carbohydrates, finally by proteins.
Fatty acids are mainly monounsaturated, simple carbohydrates and peptides have a low biological value.
Fiber is present in high quantities, while cholesterol is absent.
Lettuce and Almond Pesto is not indicated in the diet for the overweight, while it does not seem to have any contraindications towards metabolic pathologies (hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperglycemia).
It does not contain gluten and is suitable for diet for celiac disease.
It does not contain lactose and is suitable for nutrition for this type of food intolerance.
The abundance of fiber can increase bowel movement.
It is pertinent to the lacto-ovo vegetarian, vegan and raw food philosophy.
The average portion varies according to the gastronomic use; accompanying a first course can correspond to 30-60g (about 80-160 kcal).
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