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Watercress Pesto

Rated as 4.64 out of 5 Stars
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"Watercress pesto: great with pasta and salads too!"
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Ingredients

10 m servings 113
Original recipe yields 8 servings (1 cup)

Directions

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  1. Place the garlic, walnuts, watercress, Parmesan cheese, and mayonnaise into a food processor or blender. Pulse until a finely chopped paste has formed.
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  • Aluminum foil helps keep food moist, ensures it cooks evenly, keeps leftovers fresh, and makes clean-up easy.

Nutrition Facts


Per Serving: 113 calories; 9.6 1.5 5.9 12 215 Full nutrition

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I had never tried watercress before, nor had I made my own pesto. I really like this pesto a lot. I added lemon to mine after putting it on pasta. This recipe is great! Leftovers for lunch t...

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This is a great alternative to the regular, basil pesto. It is light and refreshingj - and I chose to squeeze a lime into the pesto because I wanted to serve it over shrimp scampi and linguini ...

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I had never tried watercress before, nor had I made my own pesto. I really like this pesto a lot. I added lemon to mine after putting it on pasta. This recipe is great! Leftovers for lunch t...

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I have always wanted a different way to make watercress besides potato soup or throwing it in salad. I tried this with pasta and chicken. Very good. Thanks Mandy!

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Delicious! I always made pesto with basil before, but this time I didn't have any basil - just parsley and watercress. This watercress was delicious!! I added a couple tablespoons of EVOO to hel...

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So yummy! Made this for a dinner party and everyone loved it. Served it with penne pasta, very delicious

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This is a great alternative to the regular, basil pesto. It is light and refreshingj - and I chose to squeeze a lime into the pesto because I wanted to serve it over shrimp scampi and linguini ...

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Easy to make, full of flavor & healthy!!

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This is supper yumy on a salad, it gives it nice flavour, its great in pasta too, added with some tomatoes. GREAT

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I'm not sure if I did something wrong, but I ended up having to use olive oil to get it to work in the blender and then added water to thin it out to coat the pasta. I tried it with and without...

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Being in Hawaii, watercress is a very popular item. This is a new way of using watercress, easy, delicious, I love it!!

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