My friend Kim has sent me this recipe for Coriander Pesto which is a good heavy metal detox. As it is a heavy metal detox, Kim recommends that you only eat a couple of teaspoons a day.
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Coriander Pesto
One of the ingredients in this recipe is dulse. Living in the little village of Gordons Bay, we don’t even have a health shop let alone a specialty food store. So, I headed to town (read Somerset West) and not one of the three health shops I went to keeps dulse. Dulse is a red algae. Not only is it a good source of vitamins and minerals, it also contains trace elements and is a good source of protein. For people on a vegan diet, this would be essential. Chinese stores keep all sorts of seaweed and they make for a great salt alternative. Luckily for me, I managed to find the dulse in a local supermarket. In Indian recipes you might find coriander referred to as dhania. And in Mexican recipes they refer to cilantro. No matter what you call this herb, coriander is a divider. You either love the taste, or loathe it. To me, this pesto is really amazing in both taste and texture. It freezes well so make it when coriander is in season and you will be able to enjoy this pesto all year round. You can serve it up as is, or with chicken.
Coriander Pesto
Ingredients
- 500 mls fresh coriander
- 160 mls wheatgerm oil &/ or olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled
- 50 g Brazil nuts
- 55 g sunflower seeds
- 55 g pumpkin seeds
- 60 mls lemon juice
- 10 mls dulse powder
- Salt to season
Method
- process the coriander and oil in blender
- add the garlic, nuts, seeds, lemon juice and dulse and pulse until the mixture makes a paste
- add a pinch of salt to taste and blend again
Notes
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Tandy, I’ve never used dulse before, but I have seen it on sale and not known what it was. Thank you for the headsup and the great recipe!
my pleasure! It must be an Australian ingredient as my friend Kim lives in Aus 🙂
OOoh Tandy thanks for this awesome recipe – I have never heard of Dulse powder! I just love coriander – my family don’t but i shall use this in those special moments when I eat alone! Yum xxxxx Have a great day xxx jan
you will love this! It has so much flavour. I have finally caught up with masterchef so I can read your blog now xxx
Never even heard of dulse before – will keep an eye out for it and with coriander being my favourite herb, I will definitely be making this lovely pesto.
Have a happy day.
🙂 Mandy
This is so yummy! Let me know if you find dulse 🙂
Delicious idea – I’ve never thought of using coriander in pesto. Nice post.
thank you so much 🙂
Looks gorgeous. Like a lot of people have never heard of Dulse. Shame my coriander died off…maybe I´ll try planting some of the seeds I saved.
let me know if that works as I always end up with loads of seeds 🙂
Oh my, I have to go in search of dulse!
I think Fruits and Roots will probably have 🙂
Interesting ingredients, the pesto sounds delicious. I love your little red dish to store it in to. One can never have enough small lidded dishes 🙂
the dishes were a gift from a friend – I have two from her and this week will have to get myself another 2!
O nooooooo!! I am dying!! 🙂 I cannot understand how anyone can get fresh corainder over their lips!!
I am so sorry Pink, I will have to do a pesto for you with another herb 🙂
I love coriander and making a pesto with it sounds wonderful. I’ll leave the dulse out as I know I’ll never find it. It is going to be hard enough finding brazil nuts.
The Brazil nuts are there for the selenium, and I am sure you can substitute them texture wise with a cashew or something similar 🙂
Great recipe!
thanks JamieAnne 🙂
Love this recipe Tandy! I would love it with poached chicken and rice. Coriander rules.
I will have to try that for sure 🙂
I love coriander as well 🙂
Yum! definitely my kind of pesto! I usually make it with cashew nuts, and will surely try your version with seeds!
I am going to try the cashew nut version 🙂