Broccoli Pesto

This dinner was inspired by Not Without Salt.  It’s broccoli pesto.  I’ve never actually had any pesto of any sort that I’m aware of, so I was interested to try this out.

The “recipe” is posted at the link above to Not Without Salt, but you’ll see it’s not exactly a recipe.  It basically says to throw together broccoli, oil, garlic, lemon juice and puree!  It doesn’t give amounts of anything, so it’s pretty much open to your tastes.

What you do is you steam some broccoli.  You then saute it in dark green olive oil (I don’t have any of this, so I used regular olive oil) along with two minced cloves of garlic until the garlic is soft.  Put this into a blender along with pepper, salt, the juice of half a lemon, more olive oil and puree it.

I have no idea what consistency pesto should be – should it be runny or thick?  Mine came out a bit thick, and I used it on spaghetti.

I really need to work on my spaghetti plating skills!  But anyhow, I really liked this.  I did something sneaky for the kids though.  I made them spaghetti as well, but knowing that they wouldn’t eat green spaghetti, I mixed the rest of the broccoli pesto into regular red spaghetti sauce and they had no idea they were eating broccoli – they loved it!