Making vegan pesto is easy. Garlic scapes add an unusual but delicious twist! Garlic scapes are the flowerstalks of garlic plants. They are usually available from farmer’s markets during the summer and taste like mild garlic. Use this vegan garlic scape pesto on pasta, as a marinade, as a spread in sandwiches or anywhere else you’d like some herby garlicky goodness!

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Last week, I was saw that my local organic delivery service had a limited supply of garlic scapes available so I snatched some up right away. Not that I knew what they were or what to do with them. It was a veg, it had to do with garlic so I was sold! It tastes like garlic but milder. I chopped some up for stir fries and fried rice but I still had quite a bit left after one week. Not wanting any of this to go to waste, I thought vegan garlic scape pesto sounded like the best idea. So I just used what I had and blended it all together.

I am pretty crazy about garlic so I used quite a bit here. Taste your scapes before you add them so you can adjust the amounts for your taste. Or course, with fresh pesto, the best thing is fresh pasta! Click here for my super easy fresh pasta recipe (no machine required) with tutorial video.

Of course, regular pesto includes cheese. This version is bright and flavourful without cheese, but you can add nutritional yeast or vegan parm such as this Smokey Sunflower Vegan Parmesan that takes only a minute to make.

Also, if you want to avoid using oil or would prefer a pesto cream, use one half to a whole avocado and some water in it’s place.

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