Asiatic Pennywort is a herb and creeper you can find all around the restaurant of Eco-Logic Thailand. It is used to decorated our drinks, make wonderful healthy detox drinks, you can find it in our green salads and we make an amazing pesto with it, served with our fabulous flatbread as one of the dips. Scroll down for the pesto recipe.
More information about Asiatic Pennywort can be found here.
ASIATIC PENNYWORT PESTO RECIPE
Prep time: 3 minutes Cook time: 3 minutes Total time: 6 minutes Serves: 1 jam jar
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INGREDIENTS
3 cloves of garlic
3 packed cups of Asiatic Pennywort
1/2 teaspoon. salt
3-4 tablespoons of oil
3 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 cup of roasted peanuts
EQUIPMENT
Blender
PREPARATION
Pick the Asiatic Pennywort
Wash and clean the Asiatic Pennywort
Clean the garlic
Juice the lime
Ground the peanuts
METHOD
Add garlic to the blender and process it for some time to mince
Add the Asiatic Pennywort, lime juice, salt and 2 tablespoons of the oil.
Blend the mixture, scrape down the edges a few times, until the leaves are all finely chopped.
Add the remaining oil a bit at a time until the pesto reaches your desired consistency
Scoop into a bowl
Add the ground peanuts and stir in the pesto
Decorate with some Asiatic Pennywort leaves
Serve immediately or store in a tightly-closed container in the fridge for up to a week.
This recipe is made at the @THEFOODFORESTKITCHEN, the slow food restaurant of @ECOLOGICTHAILAND.
Come and taste the wonderful homemade, fresh, organic food and drinks, while you enjoy the view over the rain forest and valley!
A MEAL WITH A VIEW!