Zucchini Noodles with Cil"raw"nto Pesto Sauce

 Zucchini Noodles 

with 

Cil"raw"nto Pesto Sauce

noodles ingredients:

• zucchini (2 per person)
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp lime juice
• 1 pinch himalayan pink salt

 

Cil"raw"nto pesto sauce ingrtedients:

• 3 or 4 cloves garlic
• 1 bunch cilantro (leaves and stems)
• juice of 1 lemon
• juice of 1 lime
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup pine nuts
• 1/2 cup nutritional yeast (optional, not a raw food product)
• 1/4 tsp himalayan pink salt
• cracked black pepper corns (to taste)

garnish:

 

• diced tomato (seeds removed)
• fresh cilantro leaves

preparation steps:

1. spiral zucchini, drizzle with olive oil, lime juice, and salt - toss and set aside

 

2. add garlic to a running food processor fitted with an S blade and process until minced fine

 

3. add cilantro to food processor and pulse until rough chopped

 

4. add oil slowly while processor is running

5. add rest of pesto sauce ingredients to processor in order listed above, scraping side of processor bowl often

 

6. drain any excess liquid from spiraled zucchini noodles and serve pesto sauce over noodles

 

7. garnish with diced fresh tomato and cilantro leaves