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Celebrity Recipes
from National Vegetarian Week, 18-25 May, 1996

Martina Navratilova's Pesto Sauce

This sauce is best served with pasta but is also delicious mixed with beans and tomatoes as a salad or spread over sliced aubergines and grilled. Makes a tasty alternative to garlic bread.

275ml / ½pint olive oil
2 cloves garlic
60g / ½ cup fresh basil
5ml / 1tsp salt
¼tsp freshly ground black pepper
30ml / 2tbsp pine nuts
125g / 1 cup fresh parsley

1. Place the olive oil, garlic and fresh basil in a blender and mix at high speed.
Leave to settle for 15 minutes,

2. Add the salt, Pepper and pine-nuts and mix at low speed.

3. Add the parsley and some freshly grated vegetarian parmesan cheese to the desired texture and taste.

4. Serve Pesto tossed with new potatoes.


 


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Other recipes in this series:

Pasta with Lentil and Apricot Sauce

Chocolate and Rum Roulade

Roasted Vegetable Layer

Potato and Fenugreek Curry

Sweet and Savoury Mushroom salad

Mixed Cheese and Spring Onion Rolls

Tuscan Bean and Roast Tomato Soup

Roast Vegetable Tarts


 
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