Thread: Nasturtium pesto

Decided to grow a bunch of herbs this year, nasturtium plant absolutely exploded and i heard you could make pesto out of it so had a crack at it, absolutely delicious. Tossed it through some pasta.

70g nasturtium leaves
4 mint leaves (or 2 heaped teaspoons of the dried stuff)
3 garlic cloves, peeled
6 nasturtium pods (or more if you want it more peppery)
4 nasturtium flowers
60g pine nuts, toasted
80g parmesan, grated

Juice and zest of one lemon
1/2 cup good olive oil
Salt, to taste


Blanch the nasturtium in boiling salted water for 30 seconds then quickly remove and place in ice cold water, squeeze out as much water as possible then whack all that shit in a food processor, adjust with olive oil until you get the thickness you're after.