Chickweed is a very nutritious plant and is plentiful this time of year! I hope you’ll harvest some today and make this yummy pesto. 🙂
Ingredients:
1 cup fresh chickweed
1 cup fresh basil
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup olive oil
3-4 oz. parmesan cheese
3-4 oz. almonds
Put all the ingredients in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
Serve with chips or crackers.
The kids loved this pesto! It is loaded with nutrition and so easy to make. This is a simple way to add good nutrition to your family’s diet.
Have you ever made a healthy pesto?
never have, but this is a great idea because I just bought chick weed seeds to grow for my chickens.
Now your family can enjoy chickweed nutrition along with your chickens, Jenifer. 🙂
Would love to try, but need to know for sure what chickweed looks like I’m sure somewhere around the house it is growing, as most weeds do. Making a mistake in identification could be yucky, not to mention deadly.
Deborah, I have a picture of chickweed in this post:
http://www.jillshomeremedies.blogspot.com/2013/03/herbal-club-for-kids.html
In the early spring it grows low to the ground. It has a single line of tiny hairs on one side of the stem. It grows in a sprawling fashion in early spring and easily gets tangled with other plants – giving it a tangled hair appearance.
It has tear shaped leaves and grows a small white flower in spring and summer. It has no poisonous look alikes either!
That looks great, Jill–thanks for sharing it! I try to grow basil every year to make pesto. Makes me long for summer! 🙂
I’m looking forward to summer also, Joy! 🙂
We love pesto, and chickweed. What a fabulous combination! Can’t wait to make it!
I would love to hear how you like it, Kristen! 🙂
I have never made a pesto, but am looking forward to doing so from my GMO free organic garden, pinning this recipe to try later. Our chickweed has come and gone before I knew what it was, looking forward to next fall which is when it is in bloom here.
You must live in a hot area for your chickweed to be gone already. I hope to get most of ours dried and stored before its gone. {fingers crossed ;)} Thanks for pinning and great to hear from you, Joyce!