Walnut Pesto

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  • Time icon
    Total Time
    20mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    397
based on 5 ratings

A creamy pesto to use as a sauce for pasta or to spread on slices of toasted bread. User generated recipes have not been re-tested by Kenwood.

Inspired by: https://blog.giallozafferano.it/mille1ricette/

recipe updated 30 Mar 2023

Ingredients

  • Parmesan cheese icon
    Parmesan cheese
    30 g
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    3
  • Bread slices icon
    Bread slices
    2
  • Whole milk icon
    Whole milk
    100 ml
  • Walnuts icon
    Walnuts
    300 g
  • Pine nuts icon
    Pine nuts
    40 g
  • Extra virgin olive oil icon
    Extra virgin olive oil
    60 ml

Tools

  • kCook icon kCook Multi
  • kCook icon Kcook bowl
  • kCook icon Medium bowl
  • kCook icon Sieve

Step preview

  1. Add bread slices and whole milk to a clean medium bowl
  2. Soak - 10 min
  3. Drain content of medium bowl into sieve
  4. Squeeze and remove excess liquid
  5. Fit max blade to kCook bowl
  6. Add walnuts, parmesan cheese, pine nuts, garlic clove and extra virgin olive oil to the kCook bowl
  7. Fit kCook bowl to kCook Multi
  8. Transfer bread to kCook bowl
  9. Attach lid to kCook bowl with filler cap fitted
  10. Blend with filler cap fitted - 2 min, speed 12
  11. Serve
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