A while back I mentioned that the only no cheese pesto around in “normal” grocery stores costs like 45 kr. Today Frej got the idea that we should finally make our own instead which we have been talking about from time to time. We just looked at the things the non-vegan pestos belonging to the other people in this household contained, and went by what we remembered from the vegan bell pepper pesto (which has neither cheese nor nuts in it so I am not sure why they’re calling it a pesto really?) and made up a recipe that turned out really delicious!

Vegan bell pepper “pesto”

1 yellow bell pepper
3 cloves of garlic
Almost one dl of rape seed oil
A heap of capers (we used almost a whole, cheap 200g jar of them)
A lot of fresh parsley, just keep adding more until you’re pleased.
Some (just a splash) white wine vinegar
Some balsamic vinegar (same as with the other vinegar)

Then if you’ve got any available, I think you should add pine nuts or walnuts or any other nut aswell. And Frej said that he has been told that you can add a few table spoons of nutritional yeast if you want a more cheese-like flavour to it. I think that sounds absolutely delicious because I am a lover of nutritional yesat (öljäst & b-jäst) but some people absolutely hate it so be careful and don’t add too much at the same time if you’re not sure if you like it or not.

Mix it all up with a food processor or what ever it is called. Mixerstav!
Eat on hard bread with chopped up red onion. Or, like I will later today; with pasta and beans!