Lemon balm pesto

This garlic scape lemon balm pesto is a slight twist from your regular pesto. This recipe combines garlic scapes with lemon balm for tasty variation.

When life gives you lemon balm, make Lemon Balm Pesto! This mint family herb is an outstanding start to a fresh pesto sauce that's easy to prepare.

Straight from the garden, lemon balm makes a fresh and bright pesto that can be used on pasta, pizza, or as a refreshing dip!

I recommend gathering lemon balm’s leaves earlier in the growing season when they are tender. Later in the summer, use only the young top leaves for pesto. Be sure to remove the leaves from the fibrous stem before adding them to the food processor. If you avoid cheese, substitute ½ cup nutritional yeast for the Parmesan. You’ll find this recipe in The Healing Garden book, along with a full profile on the cultivation & harvesting of lemon balm, and the medicinal uses of the herb.

Adding this delicious pesto is of course so much about flavor, but what you are also doing is getting your greens, easy to digest nutrients and increasing your ability to digest whatever you put it on.

Lemon balm pesto is a refreshing, delicious and easy to make pesto with a great fresh lemony flavor. Serve it with pasta, bread, grilled meat or use it to refine stews. The list is endless!

Flavorful lemon balm pesto – the best thing you can do when you have a huge bush of lemon balm growing in your garden.

Straight from the garden, lemon balm makes a fresh and bright pesto that can be used on pasta, pizza or as a refreshing dip!

Here's a pesto recipe featuring lemon balm and cashews. It's a great way to preserve the lovely flavors of lemon balm for the cooler months.

The list of reasons to love lemon balm is practically endless. After seeing some of lemon balm's benefits, you'll want to start growing some in your garden!