Green Sauce: The Forgotten Superfood You Need to Try!

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Green sauces are some of the tastiest, healthiest, and easiest condiments to make—yet almost no one makes them! Most people stop at pesto, but homemade green sauce with flaxseed oil is next-level delicious and packed with fresh herbs and garlic.

If you are looking for an interesting way to get flaxseed oil for more omega-3 into your diet this is a great place to start.

Suitable for the Budwig Diet and Overcoming MS. Very low carb so ideal for diabetic diets.

🌿 Why You Need Green Sauce in Your Life:
✅ Incredible Flavour – Bursting with fresh herbs, garlic, citrus, and spices.
✅ Super Nutritious – Loaded with vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 from Flax Farm Flaxseed Oil.
✅ Versatile & Easy – Enhances soups, curries, pasta, grilled meats, fish, beans, or just spread on bread and crackers..

🌱 Build Your Own Green Sauce

Don’t worry about measures too much! Add herbs by the handful, just pour the oil and measure by eye, add the other seasoning to taste. Make it to suit your mood and the food you want to eat it with. You’ll quickly be the master of your own green sauces.

Start with:

✔ Flax Farm Flaxseed Oil (for omega-3 & creamy texture)

✔ Fresh green herbs (parsley, coriander, basil, kale, etc.)

✔ Foraged herbs (wild garlic, nettles, sorrel, etc.)

✔ Garlic & citrus (for punch & depth of flavour)

✔ Citrus (lemon or lime for lightness and freshness)

✔ Optional add-ins: nuts, avocado, mustard, capers, spices.

🌍 Green Sauces from Around the World

🌶 Chimichurri (Argentina) – Parsley, garlic, red wine vinegar, and spices
🥑 Guacamole (Mexico) – Avocado, lime, and coriander
🍋 Salmoriglio (Italy) – Lemon, garlic, oregano, olive oil
🍃 Gremolata (Italy) – Parsley, lemon zest, and garlic
🌿 Persillade (France) – Parsley, garlic, vinegar, and oil

Green sauce isn’t just a condiment—it’s a game-changer for your meals and your health! Try it with Flax Farm Flaxseed Oil for the ultimate omega-3 boost.

Green sauce with flax oil

A versatile herby green sauce made with flax oil that you can make with the ingredients you have to hand.

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Total Time 10 minutes mins

Cuisine Anti-inflammatory, Budwig Diet, Dairy-free, Gluten free, Healthy, Linseed oil, Omega-3, OMS Diet, Paleo, Vegan, Vegetarian, Wheat-free

Ingredients

  

• 50 g Walnuts, pine nuts, or other nuts, pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds.
• 80-100 g Herbs use whatever you have or fancy, parsley, basil, coriander Foraged herbs are great too
• 150 ml Flax Farm Cold-pressed Flaxseed (linseed) oil or half flax/half olive oil
• 50 g Grated Parmesan cheese or 3-4 TBS nutritional yeast
• 1 pinch Salt optional
• 1-2 cloves Garlic peeled
• Black pepper
• a few drops lemon lemon juice

Instructions

 

• Place nuts or seeds in a dry frying pan over a fairly low heat. Shake or stir occasionally to cook evenly until just beginning to dry and sound slightly crisp but before they significantly change colour.

  This stage isn't absolutely essential if you are in a hurry.
• Place all the ingredients in a food processor and whizz. Add more herbs, nuts or nutritional yeast to thicken or more oil to make a thinner sauce.
• Add salt and pepper to taste

Notes

Green sauces that are mixes of herbs, spices, nuts, seeds, fish, cheese, lemon and vegetables are part of many cuisines in most countries between the Mediterranean and India.  Although there are many traditional versions you can make absolutely delicious green sauces with whatever there is to hand such as stinging nettles, wild garlic, kale etc. Some of my most delicious green sauces have been combos of very untraditional ingredients and I often add sweet peppers, raw or roasted, carrots grated or cooked, and celery. Every fridge should have some fresh green sauce. Store in fridge for about a week.