This Gluten-Free Vegan Spinach Pesto is an easy and healthy recipe made with only 6 clean, real food ingredients. It's the perfect plant-based condiment that's great to use as a dip, spread or even with your favorite pasta and it's ready in about 5 minutes!
Gluten-Free Vegan Spinach Pesto
Today I have a non-dairy, vegan Clean Eating Spinach Pesto recipe for you that only has 6 clean ingredients.
There are many different varieties of pesto you can make, like my Fresh Herb and Tahini Pesto or this Red Pepper Basil Creamy Pine Nut Pesto, but I had a lot of extra spinach I needed to use so I made this version with spinach.
It's really easy to make with a Vitamix and is ready in a matter of minutes.
I used to buy the organic powdered pesto sauce, but after looking more closely at the ingredients, I knew to make it fresh with real ingredients was better so that's what I've been doing ever since.
Here's the ingredient list in a packet of Simply Organic Sweet Basil Pesto Seasoning Mix:
Simply Organic Sweet Basil Pesto Seasoning Mix Ingredients: Organic Basil, Organic Potato Starch, Organic Maltodextrin, Sea Salt, Organic Garlic, Citric Acid, Organic Black Pepper, Silicon Dioxide
When you make your own pesto from scratch, you can avoid the added maltodextrin, citric acid, and silicon dioxide.
My healthy pesto is perfect to use with my Cherry Tomato and Spinach Pesto recipe, on my Gluten-Free Pesto Pizza recipe (in my CLEAN EATING Cookbook), mixed in with some fresh zucchini pasta or even as a dip.
And, it's plant-based, raw, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, lectin-free and paleo-friendly too!
Want More Healthy Plant-Based Dip Recipes?
Check out these:
- Smoked Paprika Habanero Sauce
- Clean Eating Cranberry Sauce
- Creamy Mushroom Sauce
- or my CLEAN EATING Cookbook with 75+ plant-based recipes made with clean, real food ingredients just like this one that you will love!
Gluten-Free Vegan Spinach Pesto
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups organic dry coconut flakes
- ¾ cup organic walnuts
- ½ cup 100% pure avocado oil
- ½ cup nutritional yeast
- 2 tablespoons organic lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
- ¼ teaspoon Himalayan pink salt
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a Vitamix and blend until everything is well combined. Note: I used a Vitamix Professional 750 Series with a wet container and blended starting at speed 1 then slowly moving to speed 10, then slowly back to speed 1 (just long enough to chop the nuts and get it to a puree-type texture).
- Taste and adjust seasonings to your preference, primarily the salt.
- Store in an air-tight BPA-free container in the refrigerator.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition Information
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Rose says
This spinach pesto was terrific!
I've made all kinds of pesto before but I had never thought of using spinach.
Excellent idea 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!!
Karielyn says
Hi there Rose! Thanks so much and if I hadn't opened and thawed a bag of frozen spinach earlier in the day to make a smoothie, the spinach pesto would have never happened lol!
And thanks for stopping by 😉