Think you’ll miss the parmesan or romano cheese in your pesto? Think again! This recipe is amazing and gets its wonderful cheesiness from the nutritional yeast.

I was lucky with my basil this year. I researched how to properly harvest it and ended up with huge, bushy basil plants. The trick is easy. When you are taking basil from your plants, simple trim it where you see a new little basil leaf growing. If you’re still unsure, check out this video on How to Harvest Basil. You’ll thank me.

Ingredients

2 Cups of Basil
3 Cloves of Garlic
2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
1/4 Cup Pine Nuts
3 Tbsp Olive Oil
Salt to taste

Instructions

1. Add basil, garlic, nutritional yeast and pine nuts to a food processor.
2. Roughly blend.
3. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil until it is a nice creamy consistency. Add more if needed.
4. Taste and add salt if needed. Blitz salt in to make sure it’s all mixed.