Adding this delicious pesto is of course so much about flavor, but what you are also doing is getting your greens, easy to digest nutrients and increasing your ability to digest whatever you put it on.
How can you bring the healing power of herbs into EVERY meal?
Simple.
Put lots and lots of herbs into your food. Food is our first medicine and it’s the best place for herbal medicine input.
You don’t have to be a gourmet herbal chef, you just need to have great herbal pesto on hand.
Around here, what happens is, at the beginning of the week I make up a pesto that we use all week.
What this adds up to is herbally dense yumminess ready to go for any meal you eat.
Add your pesto to grains, salad, soups, eggs and fish. Put it on your sandwich instead of mayonnaise. Nothing like a little pesto and goat cheese on crackers for a snack…
Herbal pestos are a great way to make sure you get greens with every meal. Loaded with enzymes and vitamins and minerals, taking a few minutes at the beginning of your week to make sure you have a big batch of pesto on hand is such a simple way to up your herbal quotient.
We’ve all been told to eat more veggies, but let’s expand that and sa
Eat More Herbs!
Lemon Balm
Lemon balm is one of those herbs that you might find at the farmers market in the summer time, but for the most part, you need to grow it yourself. Which isn’t too difficult. It’s one of the plants you find growing through cracks in the asphalt and beware it can take over your garden. But I don’t mind, because that means more lemon balm pesto!
Lemon balm is a great digestive aid, full of enzymes and anti-oxidants. Adding this pesto to any dish will help you with digestion, which frees up your energy for what you love to do in life.
Cilantro
Not only are you topping your meal with digestive supporting enzymes and antioxidants, cilantro is a great digestible source of vitamins A, C, E and iron.
Adding this delicious pesto is of course so much about flavor, but what you are also doing is getting your greens, easy to assimilate nutrients and increasing your ability to digest whatever you put it on.
Many spices are warming and heating to the body whereas cilantro is cooling, making it the perfect herb to eat throughout the summer.
Garlic
So many of our foods are medicinal yet that knowledge has fallen out of general household awareness. Not with garlic.
It is one of the foods that most everyone still remembers as medicine. Maybe it’s the pungent smell that won’t let us forget its power. One whiff and you know you’ve got a potent remedy.
In Ayurveda, garlic is called “The Slayer of Monsters.” Indeed, the sulfur compounds in garlic do slay just about anything we don’t need in our body. Super anti-microbial, anti-fungal and another powerhouse digestive aid.
Ok, let’s make some pesto!
Lemon Balm Cilantro Pesto
Ingredients
- ½ cup olive oil
- 2 cups lemon balm or arugula if you don’t have lemon balm
- 2 cups cilantro
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 spring onion
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Put olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, green onion and sunflower seeds into food processor and blend well
- Add herbs and salt, blend until you have a smooth paste
- Store in the fridge for about 5 days
Can hardly wait for the lemon balm to poke through next month and give this recipe a whirl. Awesome ingredients.
Thank you Kami.
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We’re anxious to try this as we both love traditional pesto. And having lemon balm in the garden helps. 😉
I’m always looking for something to replace mayo. You just solved that for me. Thank you! Yummmm!
Hello, thank you for recipe. Where do you get ‘raw, shelled and unroasted’ sunflower seeds? I have found ‘raw, shelled but roasted’ sunflower seeds everywhere, but never raw, shelled and unroasted sunflower seeds.
This sounds wonderful! Can it be frozen for later use? Thanks for the recipe.
Yes, I freeze pesto all the time. I find that it lasts up to 3 months in the freezer.
I love all your great advice and recipes. I do have a question though. I just cannot grow cilantro! Is there a trick?
Hi Barbara, I know, cilantro can be a little tricky. Once it gets hot it just bolts. It likes good soil with lots of mulch, lots of water.. cilantro is one that i buy.
I don’t care for cilantro. What can I use instead?
Thanks, Lori
I like to substitute parsley or arugula for the cilantro