Mojito Pesto

Updated: Aug 28

A bowl of spaghetti with pesto on it outside with a Mojito drink next to it and a fence and trees in the background — Mojito Pesto

SAUCE ON

Fettuccine • rotisserie chicken • gnocchi

Ingredients

1 cup basil

1/4 cup mint

1/4 cup white rum

1/4 cup olive oil plus more for a smoother pesto

1/2 lemon juice/zest

1 lime juice/zest

1/2 cup pine nuts

1/4 cup walnuts

1/2 cup parmesan

2 garlic cloves

1 tbsp honey

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

Preparation

1.

Put mint leaves into a ramekin or small bowl. Cover with white rum.

Mint leaves in a white bowl filled to the top with rum — Rum Soaked Mint Leaves

2.

Into a food processor or blender put soaked mint leaves, garlic, basil, honey, lemon juice/zest, lime juice/zest, parmesan, walnuts, pine nuts, salt and pepper. Blend for 30 seconds.

All of the dry ingredients for a Mojito pesto in a food processor on a white table — Dry Ingredients for Mojito Pesto Ready to be Blended

Dry ingredients blended in a food processor on a white table — Blended Dry Ingredients

3.

Put food processor to low and start blending. Drizzle in olive oil until desired consistency.

Olive oil added and now everything is blended into a green pesto sauce in a food processor on the white table — Mojito Pesto Blended

4.

ENJOY!!!

Green Mojito pesto in a white ball and a white table — Mojito Pesto

Mojito Pesto

Fettuccine • rotisserie chicken • gnocchi

Ingredients

Preparation

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