Cauliflower Leaf Pesto

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    1 cup

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cali'flour Kitchen: 125 Cauliflower-Based Recipes for the Carbs You Crave

By Amy Lacey

Published 2019

  • About

Heroic hours of grinding, baking, and squeezing of cauliflower florets went into testing the recipes in this book. In order to make use of the mountains of leaves left behind, one of my testers, Katie Eyles, came up with this take on pesto. Cauliflower leaves add bright, slightly bitter vegetal notes, transforming pesto into a new classic companion to our crusts. Note that only a small amount of the leaves is needed for flavor, and you’ll be using just the green parts of the leaves, not the