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Zesty Pesto Sauce

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Category:     Side Dish

Description:
Zesty Pesto sauce is great on rice pasta, rice, fish dishes, squash, or vegetable medleys.Note: All measurements are approximate.


General applicability:

Zesty Pesto Sauce
Green: recipe contains only neutral or a beneficials ingredients for that type.
Yellow: recipe contains an secondary avoid ingredient that may be substituted by a more permissable one.
Orange: contains an avoid in a primary ingredient.



Ingredient list:
  • Fresh basil leaves, washed and stemmed, enough to almost fill a standard blender.
  • 2 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 limes or lemons, juiced
  • 2 to 5 cloves (or more!) garlic, pressed
  • sea salt, to taste
  • 1/2 to 1 cup pumpkin seeds, walnuts, [or pine nuts]


How to make it:
  • Grind all ingredients in a blender until you have a course sauce.

    Note:

    Pesto sauce should never be heated, because this takes away from the freshness of the basil (although it is okay to reheat it along with any leftovers).
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Blood Type Diet Analysis:


Core Ingredients Analysis:
The ingredients in this category are either BTD compliant for all types or the recipe author and/or editor did not suggest a possible substitution. If this category contains avoids for your blood type this recipe may not work for you, unless you feel like you can omit the item or make an appropriate substitution.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Basil
N
N
N
N
N
N
B
N
Sea Salt
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Garlic
B
N
B
B
N
B
B
B
Olive Oil
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B


Variations and Substitutions Analysis:
This category of ingredients contains possible substitutions that may allow different blood types to use the recipe or ingredients that can be left out of the recipe altogether.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Lemon
B
N
N
B
B
N
N
B
Walnuts
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
Lime
B
N
N
N
N
N
N
B
Pine Nuts, Pignola
N
A
N
N
N
A
N
N
Pumpkin Seeds
B
A
B
A
B
N
B
A


Macronutrient Analysis:

This recipe may contain macronutrients with important effects on health

  • The recipe may contain ingredients high in lignans
  • The recipe may contain ingredients encourage health microbiome balance