This bright, beautiful sauce is not only simple, but it’s also nutritionally dense with only five ingredients. At Spirit Rock, we lovingly pair it with pasta and seasonal vegetables.
Ingredients
- 5 medium cloves of garlic thinly sliced
- 1/3 c olive oil
- 1 bunch washed and roughly chopped kale
- 1/4 nutritional yeast
- 1/4 blanching water
- 1 T lemon juice
- 3/4 tsp salt
Instructions
Put on a large pot of salted water to boil.
Simmer garlic and olive oil in a small sauce pan over low heat to caramelize, about 10 minutes.
Blanch kale in the boiling salted water, about 2 minutes.
Remove kale from the water with tongs and put directly into a high-speed blender.
Add the oil and garlic, nutritional yeast, blanching water, lemon juice and salt.
Blend on high into a creamy thick green puree. Time will depend on the type of blender but you really want the kale to break down into a silky, smooth sauce.
Save your blanching water and use it for the pasta of your choice.