Spaghetti with spinach & walnut pesto

Delicious. Soaked raisins in freshly boiled water, just enough to cover them, while I prepared other ingredients. Dry roasted walnuts, like you would for pine kernels in regular pesto. Added extra virgin olive oil while blending ingredients to get required consistency. Added some parmesan at the end…

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Wish I'd read the comments before I made this. At first glance I thought woohoo a pesto recipe without oil... it's truly awful. The flavours do not work and it is so dry. I added a little olive oil and a ladle of pasta water. I also left out the raisins because i just found that a too strange idea.…

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Very honest review here. I have a very varied pallette and not very fussy at all, and this sounded very tasty indeed on first glance. But the end result was incredibly bland dish, even with a good amount of extra lemon juice. The raisins absolutely did not go with it, I had to pick them out. Deeply…

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Not bad at all. I don't do raisins so left them out. I only made this for myself so I didn't measure anything for the pesto. I probably halved the ratio of walnuts but added a handful of grated gran padano. I really enjoyed this pesto, much more affordable than anything with pine nuts.

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Though the pesto was going to be too lemony so I let it down with some olive oil but mixed into the pasta it was a little bland - somehow the lemon does overpower the herbs - it was ok - not amazing - definitely not grey though.