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.
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.