Pesto Sauce for Pasta, Chicken or Fish

Pesto Sauce for Pasta, Chicken or Fish

This 5-ingredient pesto sauce is light and versatile because you can use almost any kind of leafy green including basil, cilantro, spinach, collard greens, mustard greens, sweet potato leaves or arugula. You can also add onions, leeks and chives to the food processor or blender. The lemon juice makes it bright and keeps the pesto green. It’s great on pasta, chicken or fish.

3-4 cups greens (basil, cilantro, spinach, collards, arugula)
¼ cup olive oil
2-3 cloves garlic
1 tsp salt
2 tbs lemon juice

Place the leaves, garlic and salt in the bowl of a food processor or blender and turn on the motor to pulverize the mixture. With the motor running add the oil and lemon juice.